John Gill Commentary Job 38:29

"Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?" — Job 38:29 (ASV)

Out of whose womb came the ice ?
&c.] The parent of the rain and dew is the parent of the ice also, and he only; it is therefore called "his ice", his child, his offspring, (Psalms 147:17) . Here the Lord is represented as a mother, and so he is by Orpheus ^F2 called "metropator", or "mother-father";

and the hoary frost of heaven, who has generated it ?
this is of God, and by his breath; see (Job 37:10) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F2: Apud Clement. Stromat. l. 5. p. 608.