[Christian Engineer Mass]

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Job 38:31

Most constellations are not gravitationally linked - they are very far apart along our line of sight. Pleiades and the bands of Orion are 2 of very few that actually are gravitationally bound.

Strangely, the first book written in the Bible, written some 3000 years ago, directly alludes to that fact.

Modern science had no way of knowing that until very recently.

[SunkenCiv]

• Biblos.com, Job 38:31 -- A somewhat curious use has been made of the reference to the stars in the book of Job, by an attempt to determine the time when he lived. Supposing the principal stars here mentioned to be those of Taurus and Scorpio, and that these were the cardinal constellations of spring and autumn in the time of Job, and calculating their positions by the precession of the equinoxes, the time referred to in the book of Job was found to be 818 years after the deluge, or 184 years before the birth of Abraham. "This calculation, made by Dr. Brinkley of Dublin, and adopted by Dr. Hales, had been made also in 1765 by M. Ducontant in Paris, with a result differing only in being forty-two years less." The coincidence is remarkable, but the proof that the constellations referred to are Taurus and Scorpio, is too uncertain to give much weight to the argument.

[Bellflower]

Thank you. I had wondered what this meant out of the book of Job. What other interesting knowledge out of The Bible might you possess concerning such topics?

[ixtl]

I have always been curious about the book of Job. For example, some commentators say “Leviathan” is the whale, others the crocodile; and “Behomoth,” is it the crocodile or the hippopotamus? Or are both some species of dinosaur?

Also I always thought Job predated the ancient Greeks, but they nameed the constellations...

Not trying to argue, just curious.