Job 38:31

Contemporary English Version

Can You Arrange Stars?

³¹^(A) Can you arrange stars in groups
such as Orion
and the Pleiades?

Amos 5:8

Contemporary English Version

⁸^(A) But the Lord created the stars
    and put them in place.^[a]
He turns darkness to dawn
    and daylight to darkness;
he scoops up the ocean
    and empties it on the earth.

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Footnotes

5.8 the stars … place: The Hebrew text mentions two groups of stars, Pleiades and Orion. Since the Lord is the Creator of the stars, he controls the seasons that are signaled by the different positions of the stars. Moreover, the stars are created objects and should not be worshiped.

Amos 5:8 in all English translations