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Job 38:29
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Whose womb did the ice come from?Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?
Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the sky
From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,
"Out of whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
"From whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?
From whose womb has come the ice?And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gave birth to the frost from heaven,
Who gives birth to the sleet and the frost
From whose womb does ice come? Who gives birth to the frost of heaven,
Out of whose womb cometh the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth?
Does ice have a mother? Who gives birth to the frost?
Out of whose womb did the dew and ice come forth? And who begot the hoary frost of heaven?
Who is the mother of the ice and the frost,
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered the frost of heaven?
From whose womb comes forth the ice; and the frost of the heavens, who fathered it;
Out of whose wobe came the yse? who hath gendred the coldnes of ye ayre?
Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
Out of whose wombe came the yce? And the hoary frost of heauen, who hath gendred it?
Out of whose wombe came the yce? Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre?
And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky,
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Of whos wombe yede out iys, and who gendride frost fro heuene?
Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
From whose womb comes the ice? And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth?
Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?
Who gave birth to ice? And who gave birth to the snow water of heaven?
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar-frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth?
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?
"From whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 38:8, Job 6:16, Job 37:10, Psalms 147:16, Psalms 147:17
Reciprocal: Psalms 90:2 - Before
Cross-References
And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.'
And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Perez the son of Judah.
And in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;
All the sons of Perez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Out of whose womb came the ice?.... 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 b 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.
b Apud Clement. Stromat. l. 5. p. 608.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Out of whose womb came the ice? - That is, who has caused or produced it? The idea is, that it was not by any human agency, or in any known way by which living beings were propagated.
And the hoary frost of heaven - Which seems to fall from heaven. The sense is, that it is caused wholly by God; see the notes at Job 37:10.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 38:29. Out of whose womb came the ice? — ICE is a solid, transparent, and brittle body, formed of water by means of cold. Some philosophers suppose that ice is only the re-establishment of water in its natural state; that the mere absence of fire is sufficient to account for this re-establishment; and that the fluidity of water is a real fusion, like that of metals exposed to the action of fire; and differing only in this, that a greater portion of fire is necessary to one than the other. Ice, therefore, is supposed to be the natural state of water; so that in its natural state water is solid, and becomes fluid only by the action of fire, as solid metallic bodies are brought into a state of fusion by the same means.
Ice is lighter than water, its specific gravity being to that of water as eight to nine. This rarefaction of ice is supposed to be owing to the air-bubbles produced in water by freezing, and which, being considerably larger in proportion to the water frozen, render the body so much specifically lighter; hence ice always floats on water. The air-bubbles, during their production, acquire a great expansive power, so as to burst the containing vessels, be they ever so strong. See examples in Clarke's note on "Job 37:10".
The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? — Hoar-frost is the congelation of dew, in frosty mornings, on the grass. It consists of an assemblage of little crystals of ice, which are of various figures, according to the different disposition of the vapours when met and condensed by the cold. Its production is owing to some laws with which we are not yet acquainted. Of this subject, after the lapse and experience of between two and three thousand years, we know about as much as Job did. And the question, What hath engendered the hoar-frost of heaven! is, to this hour, nearly as inexplicable to us as it was to him! Is it enough to say that hoar-frost is water deposited from the atmosphere at a low temperature, so as to produce congelation?
