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Job 36:8

Context

36:8 But if they are bound in chains, 1 

and held captive by the cords of affliction,

Job 38:31

Context

38:31 Can you tie the bands 2  of the Pleiades,

or release the cords of Orion?

1 tn Dhorme thinks that the verse is still talking about kings, who may be in captivity. But this diverts attention from Elihu’s emphasis on the righteous.

2 tn This word is found here and in 1 Sam 15:32. Dhorme suggests, with others, that there has been a metathesis (a reversal of consonants), and it is the same word found in Job 31:36 (“bind”). G. R. Driver takes it as “cluster” without changing the text (“Two astronomical passages in the Old Testament,” JTS 7 [1956] :3).



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