Job 9:8
Which alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
In Context
7Which commands the sun, and it rises not; and seals up the stars.
9Which makes Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
Cross References
Genesis 1:6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Job 26:7He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
Job 38:11And said, Until now shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed?
Psalms 33:6By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
Isaiah 40:22It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads 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 →