Job 37:10
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 37 connects to 5 cross-references. Elihu's speech reaches its climax with a sustained meditation on the divine wonders of thunderstorm, lightning, snow, and wind. He challenges Job with rhetorical questions: can Job balance the clouds? Does he know how God commands them? This prepares the …
Other Translations
By the breath of God ice is given; And the breadth of the waters is straitened.
From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened,
By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.
Cross References
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.