Job Chapter 38 verse 30 Holy Bible
The waters hide themselves `and become' like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.
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The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
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When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.
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The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
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The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
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The waters become hard like stone, When the surface of the deep is frozen.
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As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 30. The waters are hid as with a stone; rather, the waters are hardened like unto stone. When the frost comes, the waters are congealed and rendered as hard as stone. (So Dillmann and Canon Cook.) And the face of the deep is frozen. By "the deep" (תּהום) is certainly not meant here either the open ocean, which, in the latitudes known to the dwellers in South Western Asia, never freezes, or the Mediterranean. Some of the lakes which abound in the regions inhabited by Job and his friends are probably meant. These may occasionally have been thinly coated with ice in the times when the Book of Job was written (see the comment on Job 6:16).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(30) The waters are hid.--Or, The waters hide themselves and become like stone. Water loses its familiar quality, and is turned into stone.
