Job 38:31

NETBible

Can you tie the bands 1  of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

NIV ©

"Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?

NASB ©

"Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, Or loose the cords of Orion?

NLT ©

"Can you hold back the movements of the stars? Are you able to restrain the Pleiades or Orion?

MSG ©

"Can you catch the eye of the beautiful Pleiades sisters, or distract Orion from his hunt?

BBE ©

Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

NRSV ©

"Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?

NKJV ©

"Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the belt of Orion?

KJV
Canst thou bind
<07194> (8762)
the sweet influences
<04575>
of Pleiades
<03598>_,
or loose
<06605> (8762)
the bands
<04189>
of Orion
<03685>_?
{Pleiades: or, the seven stars: Heb. Cimah} {Orion: Heb. Cesil?}
NASB ©
"Can you bind
<7194>
the chains
<4575>
of the Pleiades
<3598>
, Or
<176>
loose
<6605>
the cords
<4189>
of Orion
<3685>
?
LXXM
sunhkav
<4920> 
V-AAI-2S
de
<1161> 
PRT
desmon {N-ASM} pleiadov {N-GSM} kai
<2532> 
CONJ
fragmon
<5418> 
N-ASM
wriwnov
<3725> 
N-PRI
hnoixav
<455> 
V-AAI-2S
NET [draft] ITL
Can you tie
<07194>
the bands
<04575>
of the Pleiades
<03598>
, or
<0176>
release the cords
<04189>
of Orion
<03685>
?
HEBREW
xtpt
<06605>
lyok
<03685>
twksm
<04189>
wa
<0176>
hmyk
<03598>
twndem
<04575>
rsqth (38:31)
<07194>
NETBible

Can you tie the bands 1  of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

NET Notes

1 tn This word is found here and in 1 Sam 15:32. Dhorme suggests, with others, that there has been a metathesis (a reversal of consonants), and it is the same word found in Job 31:36 (“bind”). G. R. Driver takes it as “cluster” without changing the text (“Two astronomical passages in the Old Testament,” JTS 7 [1956] :3).