Job 38:31

And dost thou understand the band of Pleiades, 1 And hast thou opened the barrier of Orion? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30Which descends like flowing water? who has terrified the face of the ungodly? 1

32Or wilt thou reveal Mazzaroth in his season, 1 And the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them? 1

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Cross References

Job 9:9Who makes Pleiades, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south. 1

Amos 5:8who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on 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 →

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