Job 37:10
8 The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
9 The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
11 He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
12 They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
- KJV
- By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
- WEB
- By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen.
- ASV
- By the breath of God ice is given; And the breadth of the waters is straitened.
- DARBY
- By the breath of God ice is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
- BLB
- From the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters [is] in constraint.
- ÅB
- Av Guds ånde kommer is, og brede vann bindes.
- OTB
- Ved Guds pust dannes is,
Og vannets vidder fryser til. - B1930
- Av Guds ånde kommer is, og brede vann bindes.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 38:29–30
From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
Read in contextPsalms 147:16–18
He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;
Read in contextPsalms 78:47
He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
Read in context