Job 38:29

29 Of whose womb went out ice, and who begat frost from heaven? (Out of whose womb went out the ice, and who begat the frost from the heavens?)

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 That it should [ful]fill a land without (a) way and desolate, and should bring forth green herbs?

28 Who is [the] father of (the) rain, either who engendered the drops of dew?

29 Of whose womb went out ice, and who begat frost from heaven? (Out of whose womb went out the ice, and who begat the frost from the heavens?)

30 (The) Waters be made hard in the likeness of [a] stone, and the over-part of [the] ocean is constrained together (and the face of the ocean is altogether frozen).

31 Whether thou shalt be able to join together [the] shining stars (called) Pleiades, that is, the seven stars, either thou shalt be able to destroy the compass of Arcturus? (or shalt thou be able to destroy the orbit of Orion?)