The LORD Challenges Job
Job 38:31
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
- KJV
- Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?Pleiades: or, the seven stars: Heb. CimahOrion: Heb. Cesil?
- WEB
- “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
- ASV
- Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?
- LSV
- Do you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Or do you open the cords of Orion?
- YLT
- Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?
- DBY
- Canst thou fasten the bands of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
- DRC
- Shalt thou be able to join together the shining stars the Pleiades, or canst thou stop the turning about of Arcturus?
- GNV
- Canst thou restraine the sweete influences of the Pleiades? or loose the bandes of Orion?
- JPS
- Canst thou bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
- LXXE
- And dost thou understand the band of Pleias, and hast thou opened the barrier of Orion?
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הַֽ֭תְקַשֵּׁר מַעֲדַנּ֣וֹת כִּימָ֑ה אֽוֹ־מֹשְׁכ֖וֹת כְּסִ֣יל תְּפַתֵּֽחַ׃
- LXX-Br
- Συνῆκας δὲ δεσμὸν Πλειάδος, καὶ φραγμὸν Ὠρίωνος ἤνοιξας;
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
OrionPleiadesAstronomyInfluencesConstellationBind; BoundSciencesCondescension of GodReadings, SelectBand
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
- Job 9:9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).