Job 38:29

29 de cuius utero egressa est glacies et gelu de caelo quis genuit

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 ut impleret inviam et desolatam et produceret herbas virentes

28 quis est pluviae pater vel quis genuit stillas roris

29 de cuius utero egressa est glacies et gelu de caelo quis genuit

30 in similitudinem lapidis aquae durantur et superficies abyssi constringitur

31 numquid coniungere valebis micantes stellas Pliadis aut gyrum Arcturi poteris dissipare