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(A)He can keep the sun from rising,
    and the stars from shining at night.
No one helped God spread out the heavens
    or trample the sea monster's back.[a]
(B)God hung the stars in the sky—the Dipper,
    Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the south.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:8 A reference to ancient stories in which a sea monster was killed and then trampled (see also 26.13).

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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  1. Job 9:9 Or of Leo