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Job 38:31

Job 38:31 is verse 31 of Job chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

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King James Version

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

World English Bible

“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?

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Job 38:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible

29 From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,

30 when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

31 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 9:9

He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

Amos 5:8

He 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—

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