Ophiuchus is not technically zodiacal in modern astronomy; Bullinger's reading attaches it to Scorpio. Critical echo: this attachment is the kind of expansion critics flag as hermeneutical retrojection.
Scorpio (Akrab) — the Conflict
Includes Ophiuchus (the serpent-bearer) — Bullinger's contested extension.
Primary passage:Job 38:32 →
Commentary
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Matthew Henry
Complete Commentary
J O B CHAP. XXXVIII. In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job's friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he to Elihu. But, after all the wranglings of the counsel at bar, the judge upon the bench must have…
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