Job 38:32
New International Version
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?

New Living Translation
Can you direct the constellations through the seasons or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens?

English Standard Version
Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?

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

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

New King James Version
Can you bring out Mazzaroth in its season? Or can you guide the Great Bear with its cubs?

New American Standard Bible
“Can you bring out a constellation in its season, And guide the Bear with her satellites?

NASB 1995
“Can you lead forth a constellation in its season, And guide the Bear with her satellites?

NASB 1977
“Can you lead forth a constellation in its season, And guide the Bear with her satellites?

Legacy Standard Bible
Can you lead forth a constellation in its season, And guide the Bear with her satellites?

Amplified Bible
“Can you lead forth a constellation in its season, And guide [the stars of] the Bear with her sons?

Christian Standard Bible
Can you bring out the constellations in their season and lead the Bear and her cubs?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Can you bring out the constellations in their season and lead the Bear and her cubs?

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Behold, shall you bring forth the Waggoner in its time, or have you stood at the face of the star Aldebaran?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the evening star with his rays? Wilt thou guide them?

Contemporary English Version
Do you control the stars or set in place the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Canst thou bring forth the day star in its time, and make the evening star to rise upon the children of the earth?

English Revised Version
Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Can you bring out the constellations at the right time or guide Ursa Major with its cubs?

Good News Translation
Can you guide the stars season by season and direct the Big and the Little Dipper?

International Standard Version
Can you bring out constellations in their season? Can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her sons?

Literal Standard Version
Do you bring out the twelve signs in [their] season? And do you comfort the Great Bear over her sons?

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

New American Bible
Can you bring forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or guide the Bear with her children?

NET Bible
Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs?

New Revised Standard Version
Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?

New Heart English Bible
Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or can you lead Aysh with her children?

Webster's Bible Translation
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in its season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with its sons?

World English Bible
Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

Young's Literal Translation
Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?

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Context
God Challenges Job
31Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion? 32Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs? 33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?…

Cross References
Job 9:9
He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

Job 38:31
Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?

Job 38:33
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?


Treasury of Scripture

Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or can you guide Arcturus with his sons?

Mazzaroth.

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.

guide Arcturus.

Job 9:9
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

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Job 38
1. God challenges Job to answer
4. God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance
31. and weakness














(32) Mazzaroth is commonly understood to mean the signs of the Zodiac, and by the children of Arc-turus the three stars in the tail of Ursa Major.

Verse 32. - Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? The context implies that "Mazzaroth' is a constellation on a par with the Pleiades, Orion, and the Bear (Kimah, Kesil and 'Aish). This makes it impossible to accept the meaning, so generally assigned, of "the twelve signs of the Zodiac." Again, the plural form is fatal to the conjecture that "Mazzaroth" designates a single star or planet, as Jupiter, Venus, or Sirius (Cook). The word is derived probably from the root zahar, "to shine," "to be bright," and should designate some especially brilliant cluster of stars Whether it is to be regarded as a variant of Mazzaloth (2 Kings 23:5) is uncertain. Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? (On the identity of 'Ash or 'Aish with the Great Bear, see the comment on Job 9:9.) The "sons" of 'Aish are conjectured to be the three large stars in the tail of Ursa Major (Stanley Leathes); but the grounds on which the conjecture rests are very slight.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Can you bring forth
הֲתֹצִ֣יא (hă·ṯō·ṣî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

the constellations
מַזָּר֣וֹת (maz·zā·rō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4216: Some noted constellation, the zodiac

in their seasons
בְּעִתּ֑וֹ (bə·‘it·tōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6256: Time, now, when

or lead out
תַנְחֵֽם׃ (ṯan·ḥêm)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5148: To guide, to transport

the Bear
וְ֝עַ֗יִשׁ (wə·‘a·yiš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5906: (a constellation) perhaps Great Bear

and
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

her cubs?
בָּנֶ֥יהָ (bā·ne·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1121: A son


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