Hale says:
"The cardinal constellations of spring and autumn, in Job's time, were Chima and Chesil, or Taurus and Scorpio, of which the principal stars are Aldebaran, the Bull's Eye, and Antare, (sic) the Scorpion's Heart. Knowing, therefore, the longitudes of these stars at present, the interval of time from thence to the assumed date of Job's trial will give the differnece of these longitudes, and ascertain their positions then with respect to the vernal and equinoctial points of intersection of the equinoctial and ecliptic; according to the usual rate of the precession of the equinoxes, one degree in seventy-one years and a half."
Hale's Chronology, vol ii,p.55.
A careful calculation, based on these principles, has proved that this period was 2338 B.D. According to the Septuagint, in the opinion of George Smith, Job lived, or the book of Job was written, from 2650 B.C. to 2250 B.C Or the events described may have occurred 25,740 years before that date.
In the mean time he swift Pyroeis, and Eous and Aethon, the horses of the sun, and Phlegon, the fourth, fill the air with neighings, sending forth flames, and beat the barriers with their feet...They take the road...they cleave the resisting clouds, and raised aloft by their wings, they pass by the east winds that had arisen from the same parts. But the weight"(of Phaeton)"was light, and such as the horses of the sun could not feel; and the yoke was deficient of its wonted weight...Soon as the steeds had perceived this they rush on and leave the beaten track, and run not in the order in which they did before. He himself becomes alarmed, and knows not which way to turn the reins intrunted to him; nor does he know where the way is, nor, if he did know, could he control them. Then, for the first time, did the cold Tri-ones (sic) grown warm with sunbeams, and attempt, in vain, to be dipped in the sea that was forbidden to them. And the Serpent, which is situate next to the icy pole, being before torpid with cold, and formidable to no one, grew warm, and regained new rage for the heat And they say that thou, Bootes, scoured off in a mighty bustle, although thou wert but slow, and thy cart hindered thee. But whn from the height of the skies the unhappy Paheton looked down upon the earth lying far, very far beneath, he grew pale, and his knees shook with a sudden terror and, in a light so great, darkness overspread his eyes. And now he could wish that he had never touched the horses of his father; and now he is sorry that he knew his descent, and prevailed in his request; now desiring to be called the son of Merops."
"What can he do? . . . He is stupefied; he neither lets go the reins, nor is able to control them. In his fright, too, he sees strange objects scattered everwhere in various parts of the heavens, and the forms of huge wild beasts. There is a spot where the Scorpion bends his arms into two curves, and, with his tail and claws bending on either side, he extends his limbs through the space of two signs of the zodiac. As soon as the youth beheld him, wet with the sweat of black venom, and threatening wounds with the barbed point of his tail, bereft of sense he let go the reins in a chill of horror." (Ovid)