Job 9:8
He alone extends the heavens, and he walks upon the waves of the sea.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
In Context
7He commands the sun and it does not rise, and he closes the stars as if under a seal.
9He fashions Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the interior of the south.
Cross References
Genesis 1:6God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”
Job 26:7He stretched out the North over emptiness, and he suspended the land over nothing.
Job 38:11And I said: “This far you will approach, and you will proceed no further, and here you will break your swelling waves.”
Psalms 33:6Approach him and be enlightened, and your faces will not be confounded.
Psalms 93:3How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners glory?
Isaiah 40:22He is the One who sits upon the globe of the earth, and its inhabitants are like locusts. He extends the heavens as if they were nothing, and he spreads them out like a tent, in which to dwell.
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 →