10By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
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Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? …
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. …
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
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…
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