Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Job 38

“Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,
Or loose the belt of Orion?
32 Can you bring out Mazzaroth[a] in its season?
Or can you guide the Great Bear with its cubs?
33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens?
Can you set their dominion over the earth?" vv.31-33


Read chapter 38
I always think it's cool that some constellations are in the Bible.  The stars tell stories, the give warnings, they guide.  The Pleiades for example would rise about the time of the vernal equinox and would bring in the spring. Orion was know for binding up the air and earth, rising in November, and bringing in the winter, attended with storms of rain and hail, or frost and snow.  "The questions addressed to Job, throughout the chapter Is it he that effects what is observed to be done? not, Can he undo what is done, or do what is not done? Hence the questions here imply that the Pleiades are bound and that Orion is loosed, and Job is asked whether it be he that binds in the one case and looses in the other" (Cambridge Bible).
What about you?  How do you think of God's first words spoken to Job in this chapter?  

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