Job 9:8
He alone is the one who stretches out the heavens and walks on the waves of the sea.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
In Context
7He is the one who can command the sun not to rise and the stars not to shine.
9He made the constellations of the Bear, Orion, the Pleiades, and the stars of the southern sky.
Cross References
Genesis 1:6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters to divide the waters.”
Job 26:7He stretches the northern sky over empty space; he hangs the world on nothing.
Job 38:11I said, ‘You may come here, but no farther. Here is where your proud waves stop.’
Psalms 33:6The Lord spoke the word and the heavens were made; his mouth breathed all the stars into existence.
Psalms 93:3The floods have raised up, Lord; the floods have raised their voices; the floods have raised up their crashing waves.
Isaiah 40:22God sits on his throne above the horizon of the earth; the people that live there are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, spreading them out like a tent to live 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 →