Job 9:7
Good News Translation
He can keep the sun from rising, and the stars from shining at night.

New Revised Standard Version
who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;

Contemporary English Version
or command the sun and stars to hold back their light.

New American Bible
He commands the sun, and it does not rise; he seals up the stars.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars, as it were, under a seal:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars, as it were, under a seal:

commandeth

Exodus 10:21,22 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt. . . .

Joshua 10:12 Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the day that he delivered the Amorrhite in the sight of the children of Israel, and he said before them: Move not, O sun, toward Gabaon, nor thou, O moon, toward the valley of Ajalon.

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Amos 4:13 For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth his word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is his name.

Amos 8:9 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein: and rise up altogether as a river, and be cast out, and run down as the river of Egypt?

Matthew 24:29 And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shall be moved.

sealeth

Job 37:7 He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his works.

Job 38:12-15,19,20 Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? . . .

Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.

Ezekiel 32:7 And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Luke 21:25,26 And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea, and of the waves: . . .

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
6Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars, as it were, under a seal:8Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.…
Cross References
Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.

Ezekiel 32:7
And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Ezekiel 32:8
I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn over thee and I will cause darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God, when thy wounded shall fall in the midst of the land, saith the Lord God.

Job 9:6
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