Elihu notes that 'By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen solid,' demonstrating divine power over temperature and water. This verse depicts divine breath as the force that produces cold and freezes water, personifying divine power as a kind of respiratory action affecting physical reality. The image of divine breath creating ice and freezing water suggests intimate divine involvement in natural processes. Elihu uses this image to establish divine power as the underlying force in natural phenomena. Yet the verse also raises questions: if divine breath freezes water and closes rivers, how do those dependent on water for survival experience such divine action? Is it divine care, or divine indifference to human welfare?

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