Job 9:7-9

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⁷With one command he can stop the sun from rising.
He can lock up the stars and keep them from shining.
⁸He alone made the skies,
and he walks on the ocean waves.

⁹“God made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades.^[a]
He made the planets that cross the southern sky.^[b]

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Footnotes

Job 9:9 Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades Names of well-known constellations (groups of stars) in the night sky.
Job 9:9 planets … sky Literally, “Rooms of the South” or “Rooms of Teman.” This might be the planets or the twelve constellations of the Zodiac. North of the equator, these seem to move across the southern sky.