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He commands the sun, and it does not rise;
    he seals up the light of the stars.
He alone stretches out the heavens
    and tramples upon the waves of the sea.
He made the Bear and Orion,
    the Pleiades[a] and the constellations of the South.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:9 Bear . . . Orion . . . Pleiades: three constellations, whose creation by God was evidence of his overwhelming might. They reappear in Job 38:31-32, and the last two are found in Am 5:8.