Job 38:29

29 "From whose womb has come the ¹ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?

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 ) .

FOOTNOTES:

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

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Job 38:29 In-Context

27 To satisfy the waste and desolate land And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?

28 "Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

29 "From whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?

30 "Water becomes hard like stone, And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.

31 "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion?

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1. Job 37:10; Psalms 147:17

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Job 38:29 Meaning and Commentary

Job 38:29 In-Context

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