Holy Scripture
Job 38:28
A church father on this verse
“God does not want to say that it comes out from his womb, God forbid! But then what do the words about "begetting" and "womb" mean in this context? As when the author said about the sea, "When its mother begot it," he did not mean that it has a mother; so here he does not mean that [ice] came forth [literally] from Go…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
28Who is the rain’s father? And who has generated the drops of dew?
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In context
26To rain upon the land where there is no man, The wilderness, where there is not a man in it; So as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land,
27And cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?
— Job 38:28 —
29And out of whose womb comes the ice? And who has produced the frost in the sky,
30Which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?