Job 38:29

29 From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered [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 desert and wasteland, and to cause [the ground] to put forth [the] rising of grass?

28 Is there a father for the rain, or who fathered [the] drops of dew?

29 From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered [the] frost of heaven?

30 Like stone [the] waters become hard, and [the] faces of the deep freeze.

31 "Can you bind [the] chains of [the] Pleiades, or can you loosen [the] cords of Orion?