| Geneva Study Bible By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters {g} is straitened. (g) That is, frozen up and dried. Wesley's Notes 37:10 The waters - The waters which had freely spread themselves before, are congealed and bound up in crystal fetters. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 10. the breath of God-poetically, for the ice-producing north wind. frost-rather, "ice." straitened-physically accurate; frost compresses or contracts the expanded liquid into a congealed mass (Job 38:29, 30; Ps 147:17, 18). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 37:1-13 The changes of the weather are the subject of a great deal of our thoughts and common talk; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu, with a regard to God, the director of them! We must notice the glory of God, not only in the thunder and lightning, but in the more common and less awful changes of the weather; as the snow and rain. Nature directs all creatures to shelter themselves from a storm; and shall man only be unprovided with a refuge? Oh that men would listen to the voice of God, who in many ways warns them to flee from the wrath to come; and invites them to accept his salvation, and to be happy. The ill opinion which men entertain of the Divine direction, peculiarly appears in their murmurs about the weather, though the whole result of the year proves the folly of their complaints. Believers should avoid this; no days are bad as God makes them, though we make many bad by our sins. | 
