Job 38:31
ContextNET © | Can you tie the bands 1 of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion? |
NIV © | "Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion? |
NASB © | "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion? |
NLT © | "Can you hold back the movements of the stars? Are you able to restrain the Pleiades or Orion? |
MSG © | "Can you catch the eye of the beautiful Pleiades sisters, or distract Orion from his hunt? |
BBE © | Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose? |
NRSV © | "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion? |
NKJV © | "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the belt of Orion? |
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NET © | Can you tie the bands 1 of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion? |
NET © Notes |
1 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). |