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29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

Job 38:29

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  • He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. …

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

  • Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

  • Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

Commentary

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

(vv. 25-41)

Hitherto God had put such questions to Job as were proper to convince him of his ignorance and short-sightedness. Now he comes, in the same manner, to show his impotency and weakness. As it is but little that he knows, and therefore he ought not to arraign the divine counsels, so it is but little that he can do, and therefore he ought not to oppose the proceedings of Providence. Let him consider w…

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