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29 Out of whose womb comes the ice,
    and who gives the hoarfrost its birth in the skies,
30 When the waters lie covered as though with stone
    that holds captive the surface of the deep?
31 Have you tied cords to the Pleiades,[a]
    or loosened the bonds of Orion?

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Footnotes

  1. 38:31–32 Pleiades…Orion…Bear: cf. 9:9. Mazzaroth: it is uncertain what astronomical group is meant by this Hebrew word; perhaps a southern constellation.