Job 38:29

29 Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist 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 give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

29 Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

31 Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?