Job 9:7
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He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.
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For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”