What does the Bible say about ice age?
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The Bible presents ice, frost, snow, and freezing waters as works of God’s wise and sovereign providence, displaying His power over creation rather than explaining a specific prehistoric ice age. In Job 38:29-30, the Lord asks who gives birth to frost and causes waters to harden like stone, humbling human claims to mastery of nature. Job 37:10 and Psalm 147:16-18 likewise portray cold, ice, and their melting as governed by God’s breath and word. Genesis 8:22 assures Noah that seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, will continue while the earth remains. These passages call believers to reverent trust in the Creator, who rules every season for His glory and His creatures’ good.
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- Job 38:29-30
[29] Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it? [30] The waters become hard like stone, When the surface of the deep is frozen.
- Psalms 147:16-18
[16] He gives snow like wool, And scatters frost like ashes. [17] He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold? [18] He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
- Job 37:10
By the breath of God, ice is given, And the breadth of the waters is frozen.
- Proverbs 25:13
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, So is a faithful messenger to those who send him; For he refreshes the soul of his masters.
- Genesis 8:22
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
- Job 38:29
Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
- Psalms 148:8
Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
- Job 37:9-10
[9] Out of its chamber comes the storm, And cold out of the north. [10] By the breath of God, ice is given, And the breadth of the waters is frozen.
- Job 38:22-30
[22] Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, Or have you seen the treasures of the hail, [23] Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war? [24] By what way is the lightning distributed, Or the east wind scattered on the earth? [25] Who has cut a channel for the flood water, Or the path for the thunderstorm; [26] To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is no man; [27] To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth? [28] Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? [29] Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it? [30] The waters become hard like stone, When the surface of the deep is frozen.
- Job 6:16
Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself:
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