Job 38:30

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28 ^aHas the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

29 From whose womb comes the ice?
And the ^afrost of heaven, who gives it birth?

30 The waters harden like stone,
And the surface of the deep is ^afrozen.

31 “Can you bind the cluster of the ^aPleiades,
Or loose the belt of Orion?

32 Can you bring out¹ Mazzaroth in its season?
Or can you guide¹ the Great Bear with its cubs?

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The waters are hid as with a stone - The solid ice is laid as a stone upon them, wholly concealing them from view.

And the face of the deep is frozen - Margin, "taken." The idea is, they seem to take hold of one another ( ּ yitlâkadû ); they hold together, or cohere. The formation of ice is thus appealed to as a proof of the wisdom of God, and as a thing which Job could not explain. No man could produce this effect; nor could Job explain how it was done.

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