32Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
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Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
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.
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-41)Hitherto God had put such questions to Job as were proper to convince him of his ignorance and short-sightedness. Now he comes, in the same manner, to show his impotency and weakness. As it is but little that he knows, and therefore he ought not to arraign the divine counsels, so it is but little that he can do, and therefore he ought not to oppose the proceedings of Providence. Let him consider w…
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