The Meaning of Job 9:9 Explained

Job 9:9

KJV: Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

YLT: Making Osh, Kesil, and Kimah, And the inner chambers of the south.

Darby: Who maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;

ASV: That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Which maketh  Arcturus,  Orion,  and Pleiades,  and the chambers  of the south. 

What does Job 9:9 Mean?

Study Notes

Arcturus
Heb. Ash, Cesil, and Cimah.

Context Summary

Job 9:1-35 - "the Daysman"
Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests, Job 9:6; the eclipse which hides the heavenly bodies, Job 9:7; the storm in which he bows the heavens and treads majestically on the waves, Job 9:8; and the creation of the constellations, Job 9:9. Who can dare to argue with or call to account so great a God as this? Job 9:10-19. Even if a man be outwardly and inwardly righteous (that is, so far as the measure of his light), yet in such a Presence the heart of the most perfect must condemn him. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves"¦. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." We cannot but feel that this old-world thinker had a truer view of that conscious imperfection and sin which must be experienced by every mortal who has a right appreciation of the holiness of God, than have those who refuse to say the Lord's Prayer because it contains a petition for forgiveness!
Truly we need that Daysman! But we have Him in Jesus our Mediator, who can lay His hand on God and us, Job 9:33; 1 Timothy 2:5. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 9

1  Job acknowledges God's justice
22  Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions

What do the individual words in Job 9:9 mean?

He made the Bear Orion and the Pleiades and the chambers of the south
עֹֽשֶׂה־ עָ֭שׁ כְּסִ֥יל וְכִימָ֗ה וְחַדְרֵ֥י תֵמָֽן

עֹֽשֶׂה־  He  made 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
עָ֭שׁ  the  Bear 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: עַיִשׁ  
Sense: a constellation.
כְּסִ֥יל  Orion 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: כְּסִיל  
Sense: constellation, Orion.
וְכִימָ֗ה  and  the  Pleiades 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular
Root: כִּימָה  
Sense: Pleiades, a constellation of seven stars.
וְחַדְרֵ֥י  and  the  chambers 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: חֶדֶר  
Sense: chamber, room, parlour, innermost or inward part, within.
תֵמָֽן  of  the  south 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: תֵּימָן  
Sense: south, southward, whatever is on the right (so the southern quarter), south wind.