Job 38:7

Hebrew Bible

5 Who set its measurements—if you know—or who stretched a measuring line across it? 6 On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone— 7 when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 “Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb, 9 when I made the storm clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Baruch 3:34

Deuterocanon

32 But the one who knows all things knows her, he found her by his understanding. The one who prepared the earth for all time filled it with four-footed creatures; 33 the one who sends forth the light, and it goes; he called it, and it obeyed him, trembling; 34 the stars shone in their watches, and were glad; he called them, and they said, "Here we are!" They shone with gladness for him who made them. 35 This is our God; no other can be compared to him. 36 He found the whole way to knowledge, and gave her to his servant Jacob and to Israel, whom he loved.

 Notes and References

"... Job 25:5 is possibly to be compared to Job 15:15, where the stars appear as deities, along with the moon and the sky, all of them belonging to the entourage of the 'holy ones' of 'El'. Particular expressions denoting 'the joy of the stars' in singing to or praising their Creator appear in Job 38:7 (in perfect parallelism with the syntagm bene Elohim) and in Baruch 3:34 ..."

Toorn, K. van der Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (p. 813) Eerdmans, 1999

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