Job 9:7

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.”

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BSBPD

“He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Who is speaking to the sun, and it riseth not, And the stars He sealeth up.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 9:7 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 10:21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
  2. Joshua 10:12On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
  3. Joshua 10:13So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”
  4. Job 37:7He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
  5. Job 38:12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
  6. Job 38:19Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
  7. Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
  8. Ezekiel 32:7When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
  9. Daniel 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
  10. Amos 4:13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”
  11. Amos 8:9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
  12. Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
  13. Luke 21:25There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

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