Holy Scripture

Job 9:7

A church father on this verse
“Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and shutteth up the stars as under a seal. Now sometimes in Holy Writ by the title of 'sun,' we have the brightness of the Preachers represented, as it is said by John, And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair. For at the end of time the sun is exhibited 'like sackclot…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX

Source: Septuagint

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7Who commands the sun, and it rises not; And he seals up the stars.

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5Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: Who overturns them in anger.

6Who shakes the earth under heaven from its foundations, And its pillars totter.

— Job 9:7 —

8Who alone has stretched out the heavens, And walks on the sea as on firm ground.

9Who makes Pleiades, and Hesperus, and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.

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