Job 9:7

Translations

Modern

He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.

Traditional

Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

Literal

He speaks to the sun, and it does not rise, and He seals up the stars,

Latin

Qui præcipit soli, et non oritur, et stellas claudit quasi sub signaculo.

Original

Hebrew

English

He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.

Notes

Job 9:1–35

Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case.

It includes:

A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32).
The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20).
A "mediator" (9:33–34).
A question of accusation (9:12).
A legal sentence (9:22).
A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
Amos 8:9
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
Luke 21:25–26
There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
Job 38:19–20
Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
Joshua 10:12
On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
Exodus 10:21–22
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
Matthew 24:29
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
Ezekiel 32:7–8
When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
Job 37:7
He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
Amos 4:13
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
Daniel 4:35
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
Job 38:12–15
In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Glossary

Book of Job

Topics

Astronomy: Sidereal Phenomena Does the Earth Orbit the Sun? God: Power of God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: General Scriptures Concerning Seals: Restraint Stars: Darkening of The Stars: God: Obscures The Sun: God: Exercises Sovereign Power Over

Job 9:7

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