Holy Scripture

Job 38:29

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…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 38:28A-29A

Source: Septuagint

Original

29And out of whose womb comes the ice? And who has produced the frost in the sky,

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In context

27And cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

28Who is the rain’s father? And who has generated the drops of dew?

— Job 38:29 —

30Which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly?

31And dost thou understand the band of Pleiades, And hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?

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