God’s Word Translation
Job 9:8
8He stretches out the heavens by himself and walks on the waves of the sea.
Job 9:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
- New International Version (NIV)He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
- English Standard Version (ESV)who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;
- New King James Version (NKJV)He alone spreads out the heavens, And treads on the waves of the sea;
Context of Job 9:8
6He shakes the earth from its place, and its pillars tremble. 7He commands the sun not to rise. He doesn’t let the stars come out. He stretches out the heavens by himself and walks on the waves of the sea. 9He made ⌞the constellations⌟ Ursa Major, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the clusters of stars in the south. 10He does great things that are unsearchable and miracles that cannot be numbered.
Read all of Job 9Job 9:8 word by word
נֹטֶ֣ה שָׁמַ֣יִם לְבַדּ֑וֹ וְ֝דוֹרֵ֗ךְ עַל־בָּ֥מֳתֵי יָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 9:8
- Job 37:18Can you stretch out the skies with him and make them as firm as a mirror made of metal?
- Genesis 1:6Then God said, “Let there be a horizon in the middle of the water in order to separate the water.”
- Psalms 33:6The heavens were made by the Lord’s word and all the stars by the breath of his mouth.
- Psalms 104:2You cover yourself with light as though it were a robe. You stretch out the heavens as though they were curtains.
- Isaiah 40:22God is enthroned above the earth, and those who live on it are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the sky like a canopy and spreads it out like a tent to live in.
- Isaiah 42:5The Lord God created the heavens and stretched them out. He shaped the earth and all that comes from it. He gave life to the people who are on it and breath to those who walk on it. This is what the Lord God says:
- Isaiah 44:24The Lord reclaimed you. He formed you in the womb. This is what the Lord says: I, the Lord, made everything. I stretched out the heavens by myself. I spread out the earth all alone.
- Jeremiah 10:11Tell them this: These gods will disappear from the earth and from under heaven because they didn’t make heaven and earth.
- Zechariah 12:1This is the prophetic revelation, the Lord’s word about Israel. The Lord—who spread out the heavens, laid the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit in a person—says,
- Job 38:11when I said, ‘You may come this far but no farther. Here your proud waves will stop’?
- Psalms 93:3The ocean rises, O Lord. The ocean rises with a roar. The ocean rises with its pounding waves.
- Matthew 14:25Between three and six o’clock in the morning, he came to them. He was walking on the sea.
- John 6:19After they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they became terrified.
Commentaries on Job 9:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8And treadeth upon the waves - This is a very majestic image. God not only walks upon the waters, but when the sea runs mountains high, he steps from billow to billow in his almighty and essential majesty. There is a similar sentiment in David, Psalm 29:10; : "The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever." But both are far outdone by the Psalmist, Psalm 18:9-15, and especially in these words, Psalm 18:10, He did fly on the wings of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Which alone spreadeth out the heavens - As an expanse, or a curtain; see the notes at Isaiah 40:22. And treadeth upon the waves of the sea - Margin, “Heights.” So it is in the Hebrew. It means the “high waves;” that is, he walks upon the waves of the ocean when lifted up by a storm. This is spoken of here as a proof of the greatness of God; and the meaning of all is, that he is seen in the storm, in the heaving ocean, when the heavens are black with…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-35Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case. It includes: A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32). The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20). A "mediator" (9:33–34). A question of accusation (9:12). A legal sentence (9:22). A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. 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. In the descent of the vault of heaven, God has come down…Read the comment
Topics related to Job 9:8
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Job 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
God’s Word Translation — © 1995 God’s Word to the Nations Bible Society
Commentaries