Job 37:10
From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
In Context
9From the inner chamber cometh a hurricane, And from scatterings winds — cold,
11Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.
Cross References
Job 38:29From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?
Psalms 78:47He destroyeth with hail their vine, And their sycamores with frost,
Psalms 147:17Casting forth His ice like morsels, Before His cold who doth stand?
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 →