Job 38:31
Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
In Context
30The waters are hid as with a stone: and the face of the depth is frosen.
32Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
Cross References
Job 9:9He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South.
Amos 5:8He maketh Pleiades, and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open 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 →