Job 38:32

30 when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

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?

34 Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
KJV
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
WEB
Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
ASV
Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?
DARBY
Dost thou bring forth the constellations each in its season? or dost thou guide the Bear with her sons?
BLB
Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in its time? Or can you lead out the Bear with her cubs?
ÅB
Kan du føre Dyrekretsens stjernebilder fram i rette tid, og Bjørnen med dens unger[^2] - kan du styre deres gang?
OTB
Kan du føre fram stjernebildene i deres
tid, eller lede Bjørnen med hennes unger?
B1930
Kan du føre Dyrekretsens stjernebilleder frem i rette tid, og Bjørnen med dens unger - kan du styre deres gang? / < JBS 9, 9.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 38:31

    Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

    Read in context
  • 2 Kings 23:5

    Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

    Read in context
  • Job 9:9

    He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

    Read in context