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Job 38:29-31
New English Translation
Job 38:29-31
New English Translation
29 From whose womb does the ice emerge,
and the frost from the sky,[a] who gives birth to it,
30 when the waters become hard[b] like stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?
31 Can you tie the bands[c] of the Pleiades,
or release the cords of Orion?
Footnotes
- Job 38:29 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
- Job 38:30 tn Several suggest that the verb is not from חָבָא (khavaʾ, “to hide”) but from a homonym, “to congeal.” This may be too difficult to support, however.
- Job 38:31 tn This word is found here and in 1 Sam 15:32. Dhorme suggests, with others, that there has been a metathesis (a reversal of consonants), and it is the same word found in Job 31:36 (“bind”). G. R. Driver takes it as “cluster” without changing the text (“Two astronomical passages in the Old Testament,” JTS 7 [1956] :3).
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