Job 9:7

In 11 translations

BSB

He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.Or rise

KJV

Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

WEB

He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

ASV

That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars;

LSV

Who is commanding to the sun, and it does not rise, || And the stars He seals up.

YLT

Who is speaking to the sun, and it riseth not, And the stars He sealeth up.

DBY

Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars;

DRC

Who commandeth tile sun and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars as it were under a seal:

GNV

He commandeth the sunne, and it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet.

JPS

Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

LXXE

Who commands the sun, and it rises not; and he seals up the stars.

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Original-language editions

WLC

הָאֹמֵ֣ר לַ֭חֶרֶס וְלֹ֣א יִזְרָ֑ח וּבְעַ֖ד כּוֹכָבִ֣ים יַחְתֹּֽם׃

LXX-Br

Ὁ λέγων τῷ ἡλίῳ καὶ οὐκ ἀνατέλλει, κατὰ δὲ ἄστρων κατασφραγίζει·

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• Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
• Amos 8:9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
• Luke 21:25–26There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves. Men will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming…
• Job 38:19–20Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides, so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?
• Ezekiel 32:7–8When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light. All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will…
• Joshua 10:12On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
• Job 37:7He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
• Exodus 10:21–22Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.” So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all…
• Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
• Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
• Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
• Job 38:12–15In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it? The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand…

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