Job 38:29

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.

Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

By the breath of God, ice is given, and the width of the waters is frozen.

Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;