Job 38:31
“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
In Context
30The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.
32Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
Cross References
Job 9:9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
Amos 5:8Seek him who made 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 on the surface 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 →