Holy Scripture

Job 38:30

A church father on this verse
“The waters are hardened after the likeness of a stone, and the surface of the deep is congealed. For I remember that I have often taught already that 'waters' are taken for peoples. But by a 'stone,' by reason of its very hardness, the Gentile peoples are sometimes designated. For they themselves worshipped stones. An…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIX

Source: Septuagint

Original

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

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

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

— Job 38:30 —

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

32Or wilt thou reveal Mazzaroth in his season, And the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?

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