Job 38:32
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst
thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
a. NLT: Can you direct the sequence of the seasons or guide the Bear
with her cubs across the heavens?
b. NIV: Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or
lead out the Bear with its cubs?
c. YLT: Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her
sons dost thou comfort?
d. Amplified Bible Classic: Can you lead forth
the signs of the zodiac in their season? Or can you guide [the stars of] the
Bear with her young?
e. Septuagint: Or wilt thou reveal Mazuroth in his season, and the
evening star with his rays? Wilt tho guide them?
f. Stone Edition Torah/Prophets/Writings: Did you ever take out the
constellations in their times, or lead Ursa together with her children?
1. “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season?”
a. Canst thou bring forth [3318 * yatsa']
[Strong: a primitive root; to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety
of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.:--X after,
appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up),
carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing,
-ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth
(out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth,
on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead
out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with
commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely,
take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.]
b. mazzaroth [4216 * mazzarah] [Gesenius:
Mazzaroth, the 12 signs of the Zodiac and their 36 associated constellations.]
c. in his season [6256 * ‘eth] [Gesenius:
time, time (of an event), time (usual), experiences, fortunes, occurrence,
occasion.]
1). When the LORD is asking Job if
he can “bring forth Mazzaroth in his season”, it is of course a rhetorical
question demonstrating the omnipotence of God as compared to man. This
rhetorical question does however contain scientific truth. The Constellations
proceed across the heavens almost in the same order every year (Note: the
slight wobble of the earth’s axis produces a gradual change in the path across
the night sky from year to year, but only from the view from the earth). God
has set all the stars and galaxies in exact particular orbits across the
universe.
a). Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the
LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon
and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves
thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
b). ordinances [2708 *
chuqqah][Gesenius: statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something
prescribed.][Strong: appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.]
2). As demonstrated in Job 38:31,
Job’s contemporaries knew where the constellations were in relation to the
night sky as to when the seasons began. In Job 38:32 this is what God is asking
Job. Can you cause the constellations to proceed across the evening sky to
determine the seasons of the year?
3). Also in the light of the
original meaning of the signs of the Zodiac, how that each sign represents a
different stage in the fulfillment of the plan of redemption, could He is also be
asking Job if he could bring to pass each “season” of the plan of salvation,
planned before the creation of the earth, 1 Peter 1:18-20.
2. “…or canst thou
guide Arcturus with his sons?”
a. or canst thou guide [5148 * nachah]
[Strong: a primitive root; to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile,
or as colonists):--bestow, bring, govern, guide, lead (forth), put, straiten.]
b. Arcturus [5906 * `Ayish; or
mAsh] [Strong: from 5789; the constellation of the Great Bear (perhaps
from its migration through the heavens):-- Arcturus.]
c. with his sons [1121 * ben]
[Strong: from 1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest
sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject,
nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.)):--+ afflicted,
age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+)
arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed,
+ (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn,
daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, +
kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, +
robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X
surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one),
youth.]
1). Again this a continuance of the
first rhetorical question and is speaking of the procession of the signs of the
Zodiac across the heavens in relation to the seasons of the year. I personally
believe it is more than just in relation to the seasons of the year. Each sign
represents a different aspect or “season” of the plan of redemption. I believe
God is also asking Job rhetorically of course, if he (Job) could bring forth
the individual “seasons” of the plan of redemption. Hence not only the constellation
Virgo on a yearly season but the season of the birth of the Messiah from a
virgin.
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