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God's Powerful "Breath"
Commentators explain that the "breath of God" is a powerful poetic image. It can signify a gentle, silent action, like God breathing on a still night to create frost, or it can represent His authoritative command or a mighty freezing wind. In every sense, it points to God's effortless and absolute control over the elements.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 37:10
18th Century
Theologian
By the breath of God frost is given - Not by the violent north wind, or by the whirlwind of the south, but God seems to “breathe” in a gentl…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 37:10
19th Century
Bishop
The breadth of the waters is straitened. —Firm, like a molten mass.
John Gill
On Job 37:10
17th Century
Pastor
By the breath of God frost is given
By the word of God, as the Targum; at his command it is, at his word it comes, a…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 37:1–13
17th Century
Minister
Changes in the weather are often the subject of our thoughts and common conversation; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, like El…