Job 38:31
Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
In Context
30When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.
Cross References
Job 9:9Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;
Amos 5:8[seek him] that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah 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 →