Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

Can thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or can thou guide the Bear with her train?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Wilt thou bring forth the twelve signs in its time? and the great bear and his sons, wilt thou guide them?

King James 2000

Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in its season? or can you guide Arcturus with its children?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or can you lead [the] Bear with its children?

Modern King James verseion

Can you bring the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with its sons?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Canst thou bring forth the morning star or the evening star at convenient times, and convey them home again?

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

The Emphasized Bible

Canst thou bring forth the signs of the Zodiac each in its season? Or, the Bear and her Young, canst thou lead?

Webster

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

World English Bible

Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יצא 
Yatsa' 
....out, ....forth, bring, come, proceed, go, depart,
Usage: 1068

מזּרה 
Mazzarah 
Usage: 1

in his season
עת 
`eth 
Usage: 296

or canst thou guide
נחה 
Nachah 
Usage: 39

עשׁ עישׁ 
`Ayish 
Usage: 2

Context Readings

Yahweh Interrogates Job

31 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,
Or loose the cords of Orion?
32 “Can you lead forth a constellation in its season,
And guide the Bear with her satellites?
33 “Do you know the ordinances of the heavens,
Or fix their rule over the earth?

Cross References

2 Kings 23:5

He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the host of heaven.

Job 9:9

Who makes the Bear, Orion and the Pleiades,
And the chambers of the south;

Job 38:31

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

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