8 The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens. 9 The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds. 10 By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
Job 37:8–10
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Job 37:21–23
21 Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean. 22 Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him. 23 The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great ri…
Psalms 147:16–18
16 He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; 17 He casts forth His hail like pebbles. Who can withstand His icy blast? 18 He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.
Psalms 104:19–21
19 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set. 20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl. 21 The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
Sirach 43:19–21
19 He also pours out frost on the earth like salt. When it is freezes, it has points like thorns. (WEB) 20 The cold north wind blows and ice freezes on the water. It settles on every pool of water. The water puts it on like it was a breastplate. (WEB) 21 It will devour the mountain… (WEB)
Job 4:8–10
8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. 9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed. 10 The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Psalms 78:25–27
25 Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance. 26 He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might. 27 He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
Job 38:29–31
29 From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven, 30 when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen? 31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
Job 26:12–14
12 By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab. 13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. 14 Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand…
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