Job 9:7

5 He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.

6 He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.

8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

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

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

Compare

BSB
He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.
KJV
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
WEB
He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
ASV
That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars;
DARBY
Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;
BLB
He speaks to the sun, and it does not rise, and He seals up the stars,
ÅB
som befaler solen, så den ikke går opp, og som setter segl for stjernene,
OTB
Han befaler solen ikke å skinne,
og forsegler stjernene.
B1930
som byder solen, så den ikke går op, og som setter segl for stjernene,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 13:10

    For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

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  • Amos 8:9

    And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

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  • Luke 21:25–26

    There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

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  • Job 37:7

    He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

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  • Matthew 24:29

    Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

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  • Job 38:19–20

    Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

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  • Ezekiel 32:7–8

    When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

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  • Daniel 4:35

    All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

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