Job 38:29

29 From whose womb came the ice, and who has given birth to the frost in the air?

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 saturate the desolate wasteland in order to make it sprout with grass?

28 Does the rain have a father? Who gave birth to the dewdrops?

29 From whose womb came the ice, and who has given birth to the frost in the air?

30 The water hardens like a stone, and the surface of the ocean freezes over.

31 "Can you connect the chains of the [constellation] Pleiades or untie the ropes of Orion?