Job 9:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Job 9:8 —

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Isaiah 44:24
Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Psalms 104:2-3
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: …
Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Job 37:18
Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
Zechariah 12:1
The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

Bildad began with a rebuke to Job for talking so much, Job 8:2. Job makes no answer to that, though it would have been easy enough to retort it upon himself; but in what he next lays down as his principle, that God never perverts judgment, Job agrees with him: I know it is so of a truth, Job 9:2. Note, We should be ready to own how far we agree with those with whom we dispute, and should not sligh…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. spreadeth out--(Is 40:22; Psa 104:2). But throughout it is not so much God’s creating, as His governing, power over nature that is set forth. A storm seems a struggle between Nature and her Lord! Better, therefore, “Who boweth the heavens alone,” without help of any other. God descends from the bowed-down heaven to the earth (Psa 18:9). The storm, wherein the clouds descend, suggests this image…