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)
Sirach 43:20
Semantically similar passages
Job 37:9–11
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. 11 He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
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?
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.
2 Enoch 40:6–8
6 And I investigated all things, and wrote the road of the thunder and of the lightning, and they showed me the keys and their guardians, their rise, the way they go; it is let out in measure (sc. gently) by a chain, lest by a heavy chain and violence it hurl d… (2EN)
Book of Enoch 2:2–3
2 Behold ye the earth, and give heed to the things which take place upon it from first to last, ⌈how steadfast they are⌉, how ⌈none of the things upon earth⌉ change, ⌈but⌉ all the works of God appear ⌈to you⌉. (ENO) 3 Behold the summer and the winter, ⌈⌈how the whole ea… (ENO)
Job 41:31–33
31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment. 32 He leaves a glistening wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair! 33 Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature devoid of fear!
Book of Enoch 60:17–19
17 And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel. (ENO) 18 And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his chambers on account of his strength—There is a special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and… (ENO) 19 … (ENO)
Book of Enoch 17:6–8
6 I saw the great rivers and came to the great ⌈river and to the great⌉ darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks. (ENO) 7 I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place whence all the waters of the deep flow. (ENO) 8 I saw the mouths of all the rivers of… (ENO)
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources