Job 9:9 He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

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Parallel Verses

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

English Standard Version
who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;

New American Standard Bible
Who makes the Bear, Orion and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

King James Bible
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He makes the stars: the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky.

International Standard Version
He created Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the southern constellations.

American Standard Version
That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.

Darby Bible Translation
Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

Young's Literal Translation
Making Osh, Kesil, and Kimah, And the inner chambers of the south.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

9:1-13 In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more than could be counted; and if God should contend with him in judgment, he could not justify one out of a thousand, of all the thoughts, words, and actions of his life; therefore he deserved worse than all his present sufferings. When Job mentions the wisdom and power of God, he forgets his complaints. We are unfit to judge of God's proceedings, because we know not what he does, or what he designs. God acts with power which no creature can resist. Those who think they have strength enough to help others, will not be able to help themselves against it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9. maketh—rather, from the Arabic, "covereth up." This accords better with the context, which describes His boundless power as controller rather than as creator [Umbreit].

Arcturus—the great bear, which always revolves about the pole, and never sets. The Chaldeans and Arabs, early named the stars and grouped them in constellations; often travelling and tending flocks by night, they would naturally do so, especially as the rise and setting of some stars mark the distinction of seasons. Brinkley, presuming the stars here mentioned to be those of Taurus and Scorpio, and that these were the cardinal constellations of spring and autumn in Job's time, calculates, by the precession of equinoxes, the time of Job to be eight hundred eighteen years after the deluge, and one hundred eighty-four before Abraham.

Orion—Hebrew, "the fool"; in Job 38:31 he appears fettered with "bands." The old legend represented this star as a hero, who presumptuously rebelled against God, and was therefore a fool, and was chained in the sky as a punishment; for its rising is at the stormy period of the year. He is Nimrod (the exceedingly impious rebel) among the Assyrians; Orion among the Greeks. Sabaism (worship of the heavenly hosts) and hero-worship were blended in his person. He first subverted the patriarchal order of society by substituting a chieftainship based on conquest (Ge 10:9, 10).

Pleiades—literally, "the heap of stars"; Arabic, "knot of stars." The various names of this constellation in the East express the close union of the stars in it (Am 5:8).

chambers of the south—the unseen regions of the southern hemisphere, with its own set of stars, as distinguished from those just mentioned of the northern. The true structure of the earth is here implied.