Book of Job questions

[InChristsLight]

This is the random verse on my Bible app today :)

Psalm 19:1 KJV

[1] The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament sheweth his handywork.

 

[farouk]

6 hours ago, InChristsLight said:

This is the random verse on my Bible app today :)

Psalm 19:1 KJV

[1] The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament sheweth his handywork.

 

Great verse there........

[InChristsLight]

On 5/15/2025 at 9:26 AM, missmuffet said:

This Christian website may have some answers to your question.

https://www.gotquestions.org/astrology-Bible.html

that's a great link, thank you much!

[Tristen]

On 5/15/2025 at 4:48 AM, InChristsLight said:

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on this question I have regarding Job 38:31-32.

I am aware of what the Mazzaroth is, but I am curious what the Hebrew version says in regards to what it says about "Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion."

The names Pleiades and Orion are Greek names for constellations correct? I find it odd Job would quote God using Greek names as the book of Job was written before the Greeks gave these constellations their names wasn't it?

Just curious what the original text describes this as.

Many thanks

English is a relatively new language that commonly appropriates terms from other languages. That means terms (such as "Orion") are English (even though the etymological origin is undeniably Greek). That is, the word "Orion" is technically also an English word - since it is the word used in English communication to describe this particular constellation. Therefore, if you are reading an English translation of the Bible, you find the English word (even though historically, the word's origin is Greek).

As with the rest of the English Old Testament, the Hebrew terms have been translated into their 'English' equivalents.

 

 

[com7fy8]

On 5/15/2025 at 10:48 AM, InChristsLight said:

There is a huge difference between worshiping the heavenly bodies (planets & stars, astrology) and the study and admiration of Gods creation as say astronomy.

Stars are also used for navigation.

[com7fy8]

According to my Net research, right now, the Hebrew scripture word for Pleiades is pronounced kee-MAW. So, this could have been arrived at independently of the Greeks' later observing and naming of Pleiades. 

And the Hebrew pronunciation of their word for Orion is kes-EEL. It was there for them to see, and to name, before the Greeks came along.

And the Hebrews' and Job's use of constellations would likely have been for navigation, or at least for realizing how God had arranged the stars, even, with a poetic touch. And because "God is love," (in 1 John 4:8&16), He has things poetic with His love purposes. The stars have organization so they can help to navigate. And I have seen how God even has people named and streets named in a way which rhymes with other people's and streets' names, showing how He is the Master of all people and things, for loving.

And there can be a message, even. Orion might remind us of putting on the whole armor of God. Pleides, if it is a cluster, might mean how we can have more in sharing with one another. And, yes, it is called The Seven Sisters . . . perhaps sharing as family like we do in Jesus. And they shine blue light. I take blue to be symbolic of Heaven, and seven is our perfect number, right?

So there can be poetry with love meaning, done by God, not only poetry of words.

One street in my lady friend's town has her name. And across from her named street is another street with "el" in it > and "El" is a name for God. So, this symbolizes how in Jesus she has God in her, now. 

And across from where she lives we have a street named after a woman I used to be crazy about > it ends at a swamp! Its habitations are maybe charming but isolated, with only one person or family in each one, or more or less so. But my lady friend is across from that road, in a residential area where ones have connected apartments and can share with one another readily.

So, God has poetry of the stars and of people and their names, with His love meaning.

[Dennis1209]

I am not being irreverent when I say the Bible was ahead of its time. It is a love story written to man by an omniscient God. Not to offend flat-earth theorists, but for an extended period of history, people and sailors thought that if they went far enough, they would drop off the face of the Earth, that the sun rotated around the Earth, etc.

Discovering the shape of the Earth is as simple as placing a stick in the ground, marking the top of the shadow, and repeating the process every hour for a half circle.

According to secular “best guesses,” human knowledge has doubled every century or so. According to the Bible, there will come a time when:

Daniel 12:4 (KJV) But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

The Industrial Revolution sparked and was the beginning of what Daniel envisioned. No one would understand Daniel’s vision until it arrived.

The Bible is not a science or physics book. Yet, it contains science and physics, much of it only coming to light in the last few centuries, some recently, as with the discovery of deep-sea springs by technology-deep-sea immersible. The Book of Job and others have science written into them:

Ecclesiastes 1:7 [rains, mountains; and evaporation]

Isaiah 55:10 [hydro cycle and recycling]

Psalm 135:7 [evaporation to the atmosphere]

Jeremiah 51:16 [thunderstorms and rain]

Jeremiah 10:13 [thunderstorms; rain and evaporation]

Job 36:26-28 [precipitation]

Psalm 33:7 [ocean reservoirs and life cycle]

Job 38:22 [treasures of snow and hail]

Psalm 147:16 [snow and frost]

Job 28:24-26, Job 38:16 [hydrology balance and sea springs]

Job 26:10; Job 38:12-14; Psalm 103:12; Isaiah 40:22 [Geology and the shape of the Earth]

Job 26:7; Job 38:6 [magnetic and gravitational forces]

Job 14:18 [sand, erosion of rock for nutrients]

Job 38:29-30 [ice age, glaciers, stages of water]

Job 40; Job 41 [dinosaurs]

Genesis 1:26; Genesis 11:6 [the complex human mind]

Genesis 1:11; Genesis 1:24-27; Job 30:3-8 [chemical nature of flesh; no cave men but the degeneration of man]

Colossians 1:17; Psalm 19:6; Job 38:34-35 [physics, electrical transmission and radio]

Revelation 11:9-11 [television, smart phones, satellites]

Nahum 2:3-4; Daniel 12:4; Isaiah 31:4-5 [automobiles, airplanes, technology]

Genesis 10:25 [continents, land masses, islands]

1 Timothy 4:8 [physical exercise]

Exodus 20:11 [who made the heavens, Earth, seas, and all that is] 

From my previous post, the question remains: How and where do we fit in the many global precision megalithic structures, undersea mega cities, the Antikythera mechanism, and the accurate 500-year-old geographical map of an ice and snow-free Antarctica?

[Prycejosh1987]

Sounds like King James version. I think they are orbiting plates. But the main point is God created everything and sustains everything by His power but also His grace.