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Job 38:29

Job 38:29 is verse 29 of Job chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

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

Whose womb did the ice come out of? Who has given birth to the gray frost of the sky?

Job 38:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible

27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

28 Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

29 From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

30 when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

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Job 38:8
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Job 6:16
darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,

Job 37:10
By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.

Psalms 147:16
He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;

Psalms 147:17
He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast?