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(A) or command the sun and stars
    to hold back their light.
God alone stretched out the sky,
    stepped on the sea,[a]
(B) and set the stars in place—
    the Big Dipper and Orion,
the Pleiades and the stars
    in the southern sky.

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Footnotes

  1. 9.8 sea: Or “sea monster” (see verse 13 and the note there).

He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;(A)
    he seals off the light of the stars.(B)
He alone stretches out the heavens(C)
    and treads on the waves of the sea.(D)
He is the Maker(E) of the Bear[a] and Orion,
    the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:9 Or of Leo