Job 9:8
Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
In Context
7He commandeth the sunne, and it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet.
9He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South.
Cross References
Genesis 1:6Againe God said, Let there be a firmament in the mids of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.
Job 26:7He stretcheth out the North ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing.
Job 38:11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall it stay thy proude waues.
Psalms 33:6By the worde of the Lord were the heauens made, and all the hoste of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 93:3The floodes haue lifted vp, O Lord: the floodes haue lifted vp their voyce: the floods lift vp their waues.
Isaiah 40:22He sitteth vpon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers, hee stretcheth out ye heauens, as a curtaine, and spreadeth 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 →