Job 38:31
Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
In Context
30The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.
32Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
Cross References
Job 9:9Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south:
Amos 5:8Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the 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 →