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Good News Translation

Job 38:29

Who is the mother of the ice and the frost,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   God;   Ice;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Water;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abortion;   God;   Heaven, Heavens, Heavenlies;   Mystery;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Frost;   Ice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birth;   Heaven;   Hoarfrost, Hoar Frost;   Ice;   Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Knowledge;   Nature;   World;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ice;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Crystal;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Color;   Frost;   Gender;   Ice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Whose womb did the ice come from?Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
Hebrew Names Version
Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
King James Version
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
English Standard Version
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?
New Century Version
Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the sky
New English Translation
From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,
Amplified Bible
"Out of whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
New American Standard Bible
"From whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
World English Bible
Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Out of whose wombe came the yee? who hath ingendred the frost of the heauen?
Legacy Standard Bible
From whose womb has come the ice?And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
Berean Standard Bible
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gave birth to the frost from heaven,
Contemporary English Version
Who gives birth to the sleet and the frost
Complete Jewish Bible
From whose womb does ice come? Who gives birth to the frost of heaven,
Darby Translation
Out of whose womb cometh the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth?
Easy-to-Read Version
Does ice have a mother? Who gives birth to the frost?
George Lamsa Translation
Out of whose womb did the dew and ice come forth? And who begot the hoary frost of heaven?
Lexham English Bible
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered the frost of heaven?
Literal Translation
From whose womb comes forth the ice; and the frost of the heavens, who fathered it;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Out of whose wobe came the yse? who hath gendred the coldnes of ye ayre?
American Standard Version
Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Bible in Basic English
Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoar-frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
King James Version (1611)
Out of whose wombe came the yce? And the hoary frost of heauen, who hath gendred it?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Out of whose wombe came the yce? Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky,
English Revised Version
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Of whos wombe yede out iys, and who gendride frost fro heuene?
Update Bible Version
Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
Webster's Bible Translation
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
New King James Version
From whose womb comes the ice? And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth?
New Living Translation
Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?
New Life Bible
Who gave birth to ice? And who gave birth to the snow water of heaven?
New Revised Standard
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar-frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?
Revised Standard Version
From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the hoarfrost of heaven?
Young's Literal Translation
From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"From whose womb has come the ice? And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?

Contextual Overview

25 Who dug a channel for the pouring rain and cleared the way for the thunderstorm? 26 Who makes rain fall where no one lives? 27 Who waters the dry and thirsty land, so that grass springs up? 28 Does either the rain or the dew have a father? 29 Who is the mother of the ice and the frost, 30 which turn the waters to stone and freeze the face of the sea? 31 Can you tie the Pleiades together or loosen the bonds that hold Orion? 32 Can you guide the stars season by season and direct the Big and the Little Dipper? 33 Do you know the laws that govern the skies, and can you make them apply to the earth? 34 Can you shout orders to the clouds and make them drench you with rain?

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

Genesis 46:12
Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.
Ruth 4:12
May the children that the Lord will give you by this young woman make your family like the family of Perez, the son of Judah and Tamar."
1 Chronicles 2:4
By his daughter-in-law Tamar, Judah had two more sons, Perez and Zerah.
1 Chronicles 9:4
There were 690 families of the tribe of Judah who lived in Jerusalem. The descendants of Judah's son Perez had as their leader Uthai, the son of Ammihud and grandson of Omri. His other ancestors included Imri and Bani. The descendants of Judah's son Shelah had as their leader Asaiah, who was the head of his family. The descendants of Judah's son Zerah had Jeuel as their leader.
Nehemiah 11:4
Athaiah, the son of Uzziah and grandson of Zechariah. His other ancestors included Amariah, Shephatiah, and Mahalalel, descendants of Judah's son Perez.
Nehemiah 11:6
Of the descendants of Perez, 468 outstanding soldiers lived in Jerusalem.
Luke 3:33
the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

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?


 
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