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30 When the waters lie covered as though with stone
    that holds captive the surface of the deep?
31 Have you tied cords to the Pleiades,[a]
    or loosened the bonds of Orion?
32 Can you bring forth the Mazzaroth in their season,
    or guide the Bear with her children?

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Footnotes

  1. 38:31–32 Pleiades…Orion…Bear: cf. 9:9. Mazzaroth: it is uncertain what astronomical group is meant by this Hebrew word; perhaps a southern constellation.