Job 38:32

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs?

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 23:5 : 5 He eliminated the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to offer sacrifices on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the area right around Jerusalem.(They offered sacrifices to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the constellations, and all the stars in the sky.)
  • Job 9:9 : 9 he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;
  • Job 38:31 : 31 Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

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  • Job 38:30-31
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    30when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

    31Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

  • Job 38:33-35
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    33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

    35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?

  • Job 9:7-10
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    7he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

    8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

    9he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;

    10he does great and unsearchable things, and wonderful things without number.

  • Job 39:1-2
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    1“Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

    2Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

  • Job 38:12-13
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    12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

    13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 37:18-19
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    18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

    19Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

  • Job 38:18-22
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    18Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

    21You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

    22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

  • Job 38:7-8
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    7when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

    8“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

    25Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

  • Job 37:15-16
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    15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

    16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • 8(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name!

  • Job 38:37-39
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    37Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

    38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

    39“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

  • Job 41:1-2
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    1The Description of Leviathan(40:25)“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

    2Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook?

  • Job 39:10-12
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    10Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

    11Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

    12Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

  • Job 38:4-5
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    4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

    5Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?

  • 7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

  • 3Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

  • 29Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

  • 16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

  • 12“Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

  • 3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • 32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

  • 7“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

  • 9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

  • 2before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

  • 23Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him,‘You have done what is wicked’?

  • 28Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

  • 32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.