Job 9:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining.

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  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 25 And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves; 26 Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:
  • Ezek 32:7-8 : 7 And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
  • Amos 4:13 : 13 For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.
  • Exod 10:21-22 : 21 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark. 22 And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;
  • Josh 10:12 : 12 It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.
  • Job 37:7 : 7 He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.
  • Job 38:12-15 : 12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; 13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it? 14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe; 15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.
  • Job 38:19-20 : 19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark; 20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

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    8 By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

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    32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • Job 9:5-6
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    5 It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

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    9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

  • Job 38:12-13
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    12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

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  • Job 26:7-11
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    7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

    8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

    9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

    10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

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  • Isa 13:10
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    10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5 The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

  • Job 38:33
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    33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

  • Amos 5:8
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    8 Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

  • Job 22:11-12
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    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

    12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

  • Job 22:14
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    14 Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • Ps 135:7
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    7 He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.

  • Ps 107:25
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    25 For at his word comes up the storm-wind, lifting high the waves.

  • Jer 31:35
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    35 These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

  • Prov 8:29
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    29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

  • Job 36:30
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    30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19 He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

  • Eccl 12:2
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    2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

  • Job 37:3
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    3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

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    12 If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

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    7 And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.

  • Job 25:3
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    3 Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

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    31 Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

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    17 And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

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    6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

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    12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,

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    10 If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

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    9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

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    18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

  • Job 12:14-15
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    14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

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  • Job 38:8
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    8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

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    6 It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.

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    24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

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    6 For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

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    22 A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

  • Job 3:6
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    6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

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    15 Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.