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Job 38:30

CreationGod's power and sovereignty

28 Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

29 From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

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BSB
when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
KJV
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
WEB
The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
ASV
The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.
DARBY
When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.
BLB
Like stone, the waters hide themselves, and the face of the deep is seized.
ÅB
Vannet blir hårdt som stein, og havets overflate stivner.
OTB
når vannene blir harde som stein,
når dypets overflate fryser?
B1930
Vannet blir hårdt som sten, og havets overflate stivner.

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