Job 38:31

Can thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

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In The King James Version

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

In Context

30The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

32Can thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or can thou guide the Bear with her train?

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Cross References

Job 9:9who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south,

Amos 5:8[seek him] who makes the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth (LORD is his name),

Matthew Henry on Job 38:26-41

God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. ( b. c. 1520.) 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 30 The… Read the whole commentary →

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