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The LORD Challenges Job

Job 38:32

In 11 translations

BSB
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?Or bring forth Mazzaroth in its seasonOr Leo or Arcturus
KJV
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?Mazzaroth: or, the twelve signsguide: Heb. guide them
WEB
Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
ASV
Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?
LSV
Do you bring out the twelve signs in [their] season? And do you comfort the Great Bear over her sons?
YLT
Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?
DBY
Dost thou bring forth the constellations each in its season? or dost thou guide the Bear with her sons?
DRC
Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?
GNV
Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arcturus with his sonnes?
JPS
Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her sons?
LXXE
Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?

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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
הֲתֹצִ֣יא מַזָּר֣וֹת בְּעִתּ֑וֹ וְ֝עַ֗יִשׁ עַל־בָּנֶ֥יהָ תַנְחֵֽם׃
LXX-Br
Ἢ διανοίξεις μαζουρὼθ ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἕσπερον ἐπὶ κόμης αὐτοῦ ἄξεις αὐτά;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 38:31Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
  • 2 Kings 23:5Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to…
  • Job 9:9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

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