Job 9:8
He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
Majority Standard Bible
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 not to shine; He seals off the stars.
9He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
Cross References
Genesis 1:6And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”
Job 26:7He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
Psalms 33:6By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
Psalms 93:3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
Isaiah 40:22He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like 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 →