Job 9:7
Who commands the sun, and it rises not; 1 And he seals up the stars. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
In Context
6Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, 1 And its pillars totter. 1
8Who alone has stretched out the heavens, 1 And walks on the sea as on firm ground. 1
Cross References
Joshua 10:12Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the day in which the Lord delivered the Amorite into the power of Israel, when he destroyed them in Gibeon, and they were destroyed from before the children of Israel: and Joshua said, 1 Let the sun stand over against Gibeon, 1 And the moon over against the Valley of Aijalon. 1
Job 37:7He seals up the hand of every man, 1 That every man may know his own weakness. 1
Job 38:19And in what kind of a land does the light dwell? 1 And of what kind is the place of darkness? 1
Ezekiel 32:7And I will veil the heavens when thou art extinguished, and will darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
Amos 4:13For, behold, I am he that strengthens the thunder, and creates the wind, and proclaims to men his Christ, forming the morning and the darkness, and mounting on the high places of the earth, The Lord God Almighty is his name.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:2-14
Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth… Read the whole commentary →