Job 38:30
The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
In Context
29Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has engendered it?
31Can thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Cross References
Job 37:10By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is narrowed.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:26-41
God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. ( b. c. 1520.) 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 30 The… Read the whole commentary →