Job 6:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: Blackish by reason of the ice - He represents the waters as being sometimes suddenly frozen, their foam being turned into the semblance of snow or hoar-frost: when the heat comes, they are speedily liquefied; and the evaporation is so strong from the heat, and the absorption so powerful from the sand, that they soon disappear.