“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…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 38:28A-29A
Original
29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Modern
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In context
27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
— Job 38:29 —
30The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
31Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?