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Job 38

Job 38:30

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

Modern
…when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
Traditional
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Literal
Like stone, the waters hide themselves, and the face of the deep is seized.
Latin
In similitudinem lapidis aquæ durantur, et superficies abyssi constringitur.

Original

Hebrew
English
…when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

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 Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Blessing: Temporal, from God God: Creator God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To