Job 9:8
who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
In Context
7who commands the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars,
9who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south,
Cross References
Genesis 1:6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Job 26:7He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
Job 38:11and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed?
Psalms 33:6By the word of LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves.
Isaiah 40:22[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,
Matthew Henry on Job 9:2-14
Job's Reply to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. 4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? 5 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth… Read the whole commentary →