Job 37:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

Job 37:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 38:29-30
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? …
Psalms 147:16-18
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. …
Psalms 78:47
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Blessing Breath Devotion God Guidance Lord

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-13)

The changes and extremities of the weather, wet or dry, hot or cold, are the subject of a great deal of our common talk and observation; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu does here, with an awful regard to God the director of them, who shows his power and serves the purposes of his providence by them! We must take notice of the glory of God, not only in the thunder and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. the breath of God--poetically, for the ice-producing north wind. frost--rather, “ice.” straitened--physically accurate; frost compresses or contracts the expanded liquid into a congealed mass (Job 38:29, 30; Psa 147:17, 18).