Job 9:8
He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
World English Bible Classic
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 doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.
9He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
Cross References
Genesis 1:6God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle 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 on nothing.
Job 38:11and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here’?
Psalms 33:6By the LORD’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
Isaiah 40:22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who 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 →