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Job 38:30
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when water becomes as hard as stone,and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
The waters become hard like stone, When the surface of the deep is frozen.
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
when the water becomes hard as stone, and even the surface of the ocean is frozen?
when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?
"Water becomes like stone [and hides itself], And the surface of the deep is frozen and imprisoned.
"Water becomes hard like stone, And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.
The waters become hard like stone, When the surface of the deep is frozen.
The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.
Water becomes hard like stone,And the surface of the deep is interlocked.
when the waters become hard as stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen?
that fall in winter, when streams and lakes freeze solid as a rock?
when water becomes as hard as stone, and the surface of the deep freezes solid?
When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.
That's when the water freezes as hard as a rock. Even the deep sea freezes over!
The waters are hardened like a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
which turn the waters to stone and freeze the face of the sea?
Like stone the waters become hard, and the faces of the deep freeze.
the waters hidden like stone, and the face of the deep is captured?
yt the waters are as harde as stones, & lye congeeled aboue the depe.
The waters hide themselves and become like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.
The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
The waters are congealed like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deepe is frozen.
That the waters are hidde as [with] a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe.
which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?
The waters are hidden as with stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Watris ben maad hard in the licnesse of stoon, and the ouer part of occian is streyned togidere.
The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.
The waters are hid as [with] a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
The waters harden like stone, And the surface of the deep is frozen.
For the water turns to ice as hard as rock, and the surface of the water freezes.
Water becomes hard like stone, and the top of the sea is covered with ice.
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Like a stone, are the waters congealed, and, the face of the roaring deep, becometh firm!
The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.
The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.
"Water becomes hard like stone, And the surface of the deep is imprisoned.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the face: Job 37:10
frozen: Heb. taken
Reciprocal: Job 41:32 - deep Psalms 147:17 - who can stand
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The waters are hid as [with] a stone,.... The surface of the waters by frost become as hard as a stone, and will bear great burdens, and admit of carriages to pass over them c where ships went before; so that the waters under them are hid and quite out of sight: an emblem of the hard heart of man, which can only be thawed by the power and grace of God, by the south wind of the Spirit blowing, and the "sun of righteousness" rising on it;
and the face of the deep is frozen; or bound together by the frost, as the Targum; it is taken, laid hold on, and kept together, as the word signifies, so that it cannot flow. Historians speak of seas being frozen up, as some parts of the Scythian sea, reported by Mela d, and the Cimmerian Bosphorus, by Herodotus e, and the northern seas by Olaus Magnus f; as that men might travel over them on foot or on horseback, from one country to another; and Strabo relates g, that where a sea fight has been in the summer time, armies and hosts have met and fought in the winter. In Muscovy the ice is to six and ten feet deep h; in the year 401 the Euxine sea i was frozen over for the space of twenty days; and in the year 763 the seas at Constantinople were frozen one hundred miles from the shore, so thick as to bear the heaviest carriages k.
c "Nunc hospita plaustris", &c. Virg. Georgic. l. 3. v. 362. d De Situ Orbis, l. 3. c. 5. e Melpomene, sive, l. 4. c. 20. Vid. Macrob. Saturnal. l. 7. c. 12. f De Ritu Gent. Septent. l. 1. c. 13. g Geograph. l. 7. p. 211. Vid. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 1. c. 22. h Scheuchzer. Phys. Sacr. vol 4. p. 810. i Universal History, vol. 16. p. 489. k Universal History, vol. 17. p. 45.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The waters are hid as with a stone - The solid ice is laid as a stone upon them, wholly concealing them from view.
And the face of the deep is frozen - Margin, “taken.” The idea is, they seem to take hold of one another (יתלכדוּ yitlâkadû); they hold together, or cohere. The formation of ice is thus appealed to as a proof of the wisdom of God, and as a thing which Job could not explain. No man could produce this effect; nor could Job explain how it was done.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 38:30. The waters are hid as with a stone — Here is a reference to freezing in the winter, as we may learn from some of the constellations mentioned below, which arise above our horizon, in the winter months.
The word יתחבאו yithchabbau is understood by the versions in general as implying hardening or congelation; and we know in some intense frosts the ice becomes as hard as a stone; and even the face of the deep-the very seas themselves, not only in the polar circles, but even in northern countries, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, and parts of Germany, are really frozen, and locked up from all the purposes of navigation for several months in winter.
