Job 38:31
29 From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
30 when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
- KJV
- Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
- WEB
- “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
- ASV
- Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?
- DARBY
- Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
- BLB
- Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or can you open the cords of Orion?
- ÅB
- Kan du knytte Syvstjernens bånd, eller kan du løse Orions lenker?
- OTB
- «Kan du binde Sjustjernens bånd,
eller løse Orions lenker? - B1930
- Kan du knytte Syvstjernens bånd, eller kan du løse Orions lenker?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
Read in contextJob 9:9
He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
Read in context