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Job 38

Job 38:29

The LORD Challenges Job · Job 38:1–41
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Translations

Modern
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
Traditional
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Literal
From whose womb comes forth the ice? And the frost of the heavens, who gives birth to it?
Latin
De cujus utero egressa est glacies? et gelu de cælo quis genuit?

Original

Hebrew
English
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

Notes

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Glossary

Book of Job Heaven Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Blessing: Temporal, from God God: Creator God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Ice: General Scriptures Concerning Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: General Scriptures Concerning Water: Congealed by Cold