Job 37:10
By the breath of God ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
In Context
9Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.
11Yea, He ladeth the thick cloud with moister, He spreadeth abroad the cloud of His lightning;
Cross References
Job 38:29Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoar-frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Psalms 78:47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.
Psalms 147:17He casteth forth His ice like crumbs; who can stand before His cold?
Matthew Henry on Job 37:7-14
6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. 7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work. 8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. 9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. 10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. 11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: 12 And it is turned round about by… Read the whole commentary →