Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 38:32 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 32. 32Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
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Role in This Section
The LORD presses the unit's question through “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?”, a line that belongs to God Waters Uninhabited Land and Feeds Wild Creatures.
Read It With
- Job 38:25–38:41
Follow Job 38:25–38:41, not verse 38:32 alone. The LORD presses the unit's question through “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?”, a line that belongs to God Waters Uninhabited Land and Feeds Wild Creatures. The paragraph's controlling limit is: The speech decenters human utility without declaring human suffering unimportant; its creation vision is not a promise that every need receives visible immediate provision.
Why It Needs Context
Job 38:32 performs a local role inside “God Waters Uninhabited Land and Feeds Wild Creatures.” The LORD presses the unit's question through “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?”, a line that belongs to God Waters Uninhabited Land and Feeds Wild Creatures. The selected verse alone does not carry the full claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 38:25–38:41 — God Waters Uninhabited Land and Feeds Wild CreaturesSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 38:25–38:41, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 38:25–38:41
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