Ayub 38:29-30

38:29 From whose womb does the ice emerge,

and the frost from the sky, ¹  who gives birth to it,

38:30 when the waters become hard ²  like stone,

when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

Mazmur 147:17

147:17 He throws his hailstones ³  like crumbs.

Who can withstand the cold wind he sends? ⁴ 

[38:29]  ¹ tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[38:30]  ² tn Several suggest that the verb is not from חָבָא (khava’, “to hide”) but from a homonym, “to congeal.” This may be too difficult to support, however.

[147:17]  ³ tn Heb “his ice.”

[147:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “Before his cold, who can stand?”