Job 38:29
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Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?

Job 38:8 Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

Job 6:16 They that fear the hoary frost, the snow shall fall upon them.

Job 37:10 When God bloweth there cometh frost, and again the waters are poured out abundantly.

Psalm 147:16,17 Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes. . . .

Context
God Challenges Job
28Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew? 29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?30The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.…
Cross References
Job 37:10
When God bloweth there cometh frost, and again the waters are poured out abundantly.

Job 38:30
The waters are hardened like a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed.

Psalm 147:16
Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.

Psalm 147:17
He sendeth his crystal like morsels: who shall stand before the face of his cold?

Lexicon
From whose
מִ֭י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

womb
מִבֶּ֣טֶן (mib·be·ṭen)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 990: The belly, the womb, the bosom, body of anything

does the ice
הַקָּ֑רַח (haq·qā·raḥ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7140: Ice, hail, rock crystal

emerge?
יָצָ֣א (yā·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

Who
מִ֣י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

gave birth to
יְלָדֽוֹ׃ (yə·lā·ḏōw)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

the frost
וּכְפֹ֥ר (ū·ḵə·p̄ōr)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3713: A cover, a tankard, white frost

from heaven,
שָׁ֝מַיִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8064: Heaven, sky


Additional Translations
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gave birth to the frost from heaven,Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?

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

And out of whose womb comes the ice? and who has produced the frost in the sky,

Out of whose womb cometh the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth?

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

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

Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?
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