30 when water becomes as hard as stone,[a]
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?(A)

31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades
or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 Can you bring out the constellations[b] in their season
and lead the Bear[c] and her cubs?(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:30 Lit water hides itself as the stone
  2. Job 38:32 Or Mazzaroth; Hb obscure
  3. Job 38:32 Or lead Aldebaran

30 when the waters become hard as stone,
    when the surface of the deep is frozen?(A)

31 “Can you bind the chains[a] of the Pleiades?
    Can you loosen Orion’s belt?(B)
32 Can you bring forth the constellations(C) in their seasons[b]
    or lead out the Bear[c] with its cubs?(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:31 Septuagint; Hebrew beauty
  2. Job 38:32 Or the morning star in its season
  3. Job 38:32 Or out Leo