Job 38:32 KJV — MannaFest

Job 38:32

Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

KJV

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ASV

Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?

WEB

Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

YLT

Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?

DBT

Dost thou bring forth the constellations each in its season? or dost thou guide the Bear with her sons?

About this book

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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MazzarothPrimary anchor — Mazzaroth named by God to Job.

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Cross-references

3 verses on the floor

Job 38:31
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
2 Kings 23:5
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
Job 9:9
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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"What is the way (to the place wherein) light dwelleth?" The origin of light and darkness. In Ge 1:3-5, 14-18, "light" is created distinct from, and previous to, light-emitting bodies, the luminaries of heaven.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

The sense is, who was it that built this goodly fabrick, and established it so firmly that it cannot be moved. Stars - The angels, who may well be called morning-stars, because of their excellent lustre and glory. Sons of God - The angels called the sons of God, because they had their whole being from him, and because they were made partakers of his Divine and glorious image.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

We are not only unconcerned in the government of the stars (the government they are under, and the government they are entrusted with, for they both rule and are ruled), but utterly unacquainted with it; we know not the ordinances of heaven,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Arcturus--Ursa Major. his sons?--the three stars in his tail. Canst thou make them appear in the sky? The great and less Bear are called by the Arabs "Daughters of the Bier," the quadrangle being the bier, the three others the mourners.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Where this verse connects

Anchor Strong's H4216
Mazzaroth (H4216) is a hapax legomenon; Job 38:32 is its lone occurrence and the page's title word.
Strong's H4216 (biblehub.com/hebrew/4216.htm); Job 38:32 ASV
Sky Imagery Frame Psalms 19:1
The two texts the Mazzaroth wheel hangs on; the gospel-in-the-stars reading stays an attributed 19th-c. tradition (Seiss, Bullinger; PD). No confidence badge. Presentation, not echo-claim.
featured/mazzaroth (presentation-plan p.9); Commons Uranometria plates (PD)
Guardrail Deuteronomy 4:19
Israel is forbidden to worship the host of heaven that God 'allotted to all the peoples' - the counterweight to venerating the Mazzaroth.
Deut 4:19 (ASV)

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H514839× in canon H6256296× in canon

◈Mazzaroth / gospel in the starscontested · tier D

Tier D (historically false premises, refuted from inside young-earth creationism). No decoded-zodiac reading is proposed as an approved connection; connections below are the honest scaffolding of a single contested-framed page: genuine star-texts, word anchors, and guardrail Scriptures. - **verse:job.38.32** — Mazzaroth (H4216) is a hapax legomenon; its lone occurrence is Job 38:32 and it is the page's title word. _(source: Strong's H4216 (biblehub.com/hebrew/4216.htm); Job 38:32 ASV)_ - **verse:gen.1.14** — The luminaries 'for signs and seasons' beside 'the heavens declare the glory of God' — the legitimate Tier-A witness of the sky, the honest core of the page. _(source: Gen 1:14; Ps 19:1 (ASV))_ - **verse:psa.19.4** — Paul quotes Ps 19:4 ('their line is gone out through all the earth') in Rom 10:18, applying the heavens' silent witness to the preached gospel — the hinge of the natural-vs-special-revelation question the page turns on. _(source: Rom 10:18 quoting Ps 19:4 (LXX); Beale & Carson, Commentary on the NT Use of the OT (2007))_ - **verse:psa.19.1** — General revelation shows God's everlasting power and divinity - and, per Faulkner, nothing about the way of salvation; the honest limit on what the stars reveal. _(source: Ps 19:1; Rom 1:20 (ASV); Faulkner, ARJ 6 (2013))_ - **verse:deu.4.19** — Israel is forbidden to worship the host of heaven that God 'allotted to all the peoples' - the counterweight to venerating the Mazzaroth. _(source: Deut 4:19 (ASV))_ - **verse:deu.18.10** — Divination and star-reading for guidance/fate are explicitly condemned (Deut 18:9-14; the 'astrologers, stargazers, monthly prognosticators' of Isa 47:13-14); the page must display this so the star-gospel is never mistaken for a license to astrologize. _(source: Deut 18:10-14; Isa 47:13-14 (ASV))_ - **verse:rom.10.17** — Faulkner's theological objection: faith comes by hearing the word (Rom 10:17), and the rulers of this age did not know the hidden wisdom (1 Cor 2:8) - redemption was not legibly pre-written in the constellations. _(source: Faulkner, J. Creation 12(2):169-172 (1998); Rom 10:17; 1 Cor 2:8 (ASV))_ - **verse:2pe.1.19** — The 'word of prophecy made more sure' (2 Pet 1:19) ranked above heavenly signs; Ps 19:7-11 is the Psalm's own pivot from sky to Scripture - the honest landing of the page. _(source: 2 Pet 1:19; Ps 19:7 (ASV))_

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Critiques documented per entry in the lens brief (both Statistical Science papers, Allis 1944, Faulkner 1998/2013, edition-sensitivity data) — see the atlas brief; refine per-claim entries in the editor.

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JOB 38:32JOB 9:9 AMO 5:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JOB 38:32JOB 38:31 JOB 9:9
JOB 38:32JOB 9:9 GEN 1:16
JOB 38:32JOB 9:9 JOB 38:31-41
JOB 38:322KI 23:5 JER 44:17-19
JOB 38:32JOB 9:9 PSA 147:4
JOB 38:32JOB 9:9 PSA 104:13
JOB 38:322KI 23:5 2KI 21:3-4

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