KJV King James Version
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 38:32
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?
WEB World English Bible
Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
ASV American Standard Version
Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?
Surrounding context — Job 38
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as [with] a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we [are]?
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Job 38:31Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?Job 9:9Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.2 Kings 23:5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
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