Job 38:29

29 From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

Job 38:29 in Other Translations

29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

29 From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?

29 Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?

29 the mother of ice and frost?

29 Whose womb did the ice come from? Who gave birth to the frost of heaven

Job 38:29 Meaning and Commentary

Job 38:29

Out of whose womb came the ice?
&c.] The parent of the rain and dew is the parent of the ice also, and he only; it is therefore called "his ice", his child, his offspring, ( Psalms 147:17 ) . Here the Lord is represented as a mother, and so he is by Orpheus ^F2 called "metropator", or "mother-father";

and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
this is of God, and by his breath; see ( Job 37:10 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Apud Clement. Stromat. l. 5. p. 608.

Job 38:29 In-Context

27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?

28 Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?

29 From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens

30 when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen?

31 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt?

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 147:16-17