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Job 38:30-32
New English Translation
Job 38:30-32
New English Translation
30 when the waters become hard[a] like stone,
when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?
31 Can you tie the bands[b] of the Pleiades,
or release the cords of Orion?
32 Can you lead out
the constellations[c] in their seasons,
or guide the Bear with its cubs?[d]
Footnotes
- 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).
- Job 38:32 tn The word מַזָּרוֹת (mazzarot) is taken by some to refer to the constellations (see 2 Kgs 23:5), and by others as connected to the word for “crown,” and so “corona.”
- Job 38:32 sn See Job 9:9.
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