Amos 5:8
6 Seek the Lord so you can live! Otherwise he will break out like fire against Joseph’s family; the fire will consume, and no one will be able to quench it and save Bethel. 7 The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground. 8 But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name! 9 He flashes destruction down upon the strong so that destruction overwhelms the fortified places. 10 The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.
LXX Amos 5:8
6 Seek ye the Lord, and ye shall live; lest the house of Joseph blaze as fire, and it devour him, and there shall be none to quench it for the house of Israel. 7 It is he that executes judgment in the height above, and he has established justice on the earth: 8 who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on the face of the earth: the Lord is his name: 9 who dispenses ruin to strength, and brings distress upon the fortress. 10 They hated him that reproved in the gates, and abhorred holy speech.
Notes and References
"... in the Septuagint, the description of heavy rain in verse 25 comes not as a contrasting addition (as in the Masoretic text) but rather a complimentary one. The description of the rain that follows in verses 26–27 of the Masoretic text is missing in the original Greek text. Possibly, the translator felt these verses were redundant. In any case, central to the questions put to Job in the Greek text, exactly as in the Masoretic text, stands the notion that none other than God is responsible for thunderstorms and heavy downpours, as well as for frost, cold and large sheets of ice (verses 25–30). Motifs from the mythology of the weather god are playfully employed (compare Psalm 29:3–9). However, in contrast to the Masoretic text, these are not flanked by any rationalizing tendency; rather, the God of Israel appears mythopoetically as the single true father of rain (verse 28). Pagan Greek poets speak in this fashion about Zeus. A section on the heavenly bodies follows upon the representation of precipitation and frost in a way that makes sense meteorologically (verses 31–33). From the “deep”, the glance turns once more to the sky and makes the Pleiades and Orion its theme. (Compare Job 9:9; Isaiah 13:10 LXX; Amos 5:8) Verse 32, which is missing in the Old Greek, possibly because the translator was not familiar with the rare Hebrew word ..."
Witte, Markus "Cosmos and Creation in Job 38 (Septuagint)" in Duggan, Michael W., et al. (eds.) Cosmos and Creation: Second Temple Perspectives (pp. 55-76) De Gruyter, 2020