Job 38 · Verse 30

Job 38:30

The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Job 38:30, King James Version

Job 38:30 in other translations

BSB	when the waters become hard as stone and the surface 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.
YLT	As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.
DARBY	When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.
BBE	The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
Webster	The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

What does Job 38:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 38:19-38

19-38. The marvels in heaven. "What is the way (to the place wherein) light dwelleth?" The origin of light and darkness. In Ge 1:3-5, 14-18, "light" is created distinct from, and previous to, light-emitting bodies, the luminaries of heaven.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 30 The waters are hid as with a stone - Here is a reference to freezing in the winter, as we may learn from some of the constellations mentioned below, which arise above our horizon, in the winter months. The word יתחבאו yithchabbau is understood by the versions in general as implying hardening or congelation; and we know in some intense frosts the ice becomes as hard as a stone; and even the face of the deep - the very seas themselves, not only in the polar circles, but even in northern countries, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, and parts of Germany, are really frozen, and locked up from all the purposes of navigation for several months in winter.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 38:25-41

Hitherto God had put questions to Job to show him his ignorance; now God shows his weakness. As it is but little that he knows, he ought not to arraign the Divine counsels; it is but little he can do, therefore he ought not to oppose the ways of Providence. See the all-sufficiency of the Divine Providence; it has wherewithal to satisfy the desire of every living thing. And he that takes care of the young ravens…

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Job 38:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כָּ֭אֶבֶןKa.'e.venlike <the> stoneH68

מַ֣יִםMa.yimwatersH4325

יִתְחַבָּ֑אוּyit.cha.Ba.'uthey become hardH2244

וּפְנֵ֥יu.fe.Neiand [the] surface ofH6440

תְ֝ה֗וֹםte.Hom[the] deepH8415

יִתְלַכָּֽדוּ\׃yit.la.Ka.duthey freezeH3920

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 38:30

Job 37:10
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

the face.
37:10
frozen. Heb. taken.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Job 38:29
Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Job 38:30
The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
Job 38:31
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

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Job 38:30 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Las aguas se endurecen á manera de piedra, y congélase la haz del abismo.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Devenues pierre, les eaux se cachent, et la surface de l’abîme se prend.
German Elberfelder 1871	Wie das Gestein verdichten sich die Wasser, und die Fläche der Tiefe schließt sich zusammen.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	In similitudinem lapidis aquæ durantur, et superficies abyssi constringitur.