Job 38:31-33
Legacy Standard Bible
31 “Can you bind the chains of the (A)Pleiades,
Or loose the cords of Orion?
32 Can you lead forth a [a]constellation in its season,
And guide the Bear with her [b]satellites?
33 Do you know the (B)statutes of the heavens,
Or fix their rule over the earth?
Job 38:31-33
New English Translation
31 Can you tie the bands[a] of the Pleiades,
or release the cords of Orion?
32 Can you lead out
the constellations[b] in their seasons,
or guide the Bear with its cubs?[c]
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens,
or can you set up their rule over the earth?
Footnotes
- 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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