Job 38:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 38:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Out of whose womb came the ice? - That is, who has caused or produced it? The idea is, that it was not by any human agency, or in any known way by which living beings were propagated. And the...

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• Job 38:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Wonders of the Inanimate Creation. Where was Job when the earth was made? The work of creation is described as the building of a house. In Job 38:7 the stars, which are older than the world (...

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• Job 38:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? Out of whose womb came the ice? - Ice is a solid, transparent, and brittle body, formed of water by means of cold....

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• Job 38:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? ( Job 37:10 .)

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• Job 38:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of the Almighty ( Job 38:39 ) The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way as to forc...

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• Job 38:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1-41 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm issues...

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• Job 38:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  What Man Cannot Do Job 38:19-41 In this chapter a number of nature-pictures pass before us. These include the creation of the earth, Job 38:4-7 ; the sea, Job 38:8-11 ; light, Job 38:12-15 ;...

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• Job 38:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challe...

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• Job 38:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) В¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (5) Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?...

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• Job 38:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Out of whose womb came the ice ?.... The parent of the rain and dew is the parent of the ice also, and he only; it is therefore called "his ice", his child, his offspring, Psalms 147:17 . Here the...

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• Job 38:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? Ver. 29. Out of whose womb came the ice ] Indeed of ice and water is said in a sense, Mater me genuit: eadem...

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• Job 38:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hath the rain a father? Is there any man that can beget or produce rain at his pleasure? No; this is my peculiar work. The hoary frost, who hath gendered it? What man can either produce, or doth...

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• Job 38:29 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the wh...

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• Job 38:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. B. C. 1520.       25 Who hath divided a watercourse f...

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• Job 38:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  What man either can produce them, or doth fully understand where or how they are engendered? For philosophers speak of these things only by guess, and the reasons which some assign for them are confu...

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• Job 38:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud, from which already issued thund...

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• Job 38:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 38:1 . The whirlwind. Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in...

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• Job 38:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Hath the rain a father? The weather provider Two ships meet mid-Atlantic. The one is going to Southampton and the other is coming to New York. Provide weather that, while it is abaft for one sh...

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• Job 38:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY . EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (...

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• Job 38:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  God's Majesty in the Wonders above the Earth

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• Job 38:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 37:10 ; Job 38:8 ; Job 6:16 ; Psalms 147:16 ; Psalms 147:17

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• Job 38:29 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  God Speaks to Job Job 38:1-41 to Job 42:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed...

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