Job 38:31
Hebrew Text— Job 38:31“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the cords of Orion?
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For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.
God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
“Therefore behold, I will cause them to know, this once I will cause them to know my hand and my might. Then they will know that my name is Yahweh.”
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
He got rid of 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 around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.
You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.
He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
“Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his name, says:
He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.
When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore.
From there we circled around and arrived at Rhegium. After one day, a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli,
The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.