Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
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Gill's Exposition
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades,.... Of which See Gill on Job 9:9; and this constellation of the seven stars which is meant, rising in the spring, the pleasantnesses of the season, as…
Barnes' Notes
Out of whose womb came the ice? - That is, who has caused or produced it? The idea is, that it was not by any human agency, or in any known way by which living beings were propagated. And the hoary…
Adam Clarke
Out of whose womb came the ice? - Ice is a solid, transparent, and brittle body, formed of water by means of cold. Some philosophers suppose that ice is only the re-establishment of water in its…
Hitherto God had put such questions to Job as were proper to convince him of his ignorance and short-sightedness. Now he comes, in the same manner, to show his impotency and weakness. As it is but…
Cambridge Bible
who hath gendered it Rather, brought it forth, or borne it (Isa 49:21), as the parallelism of the first clause requires.