Job 9:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the wavesa of the sea. ”

Job 9:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Which 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 me...
Job 9:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 9:1-24 is Job's answer to the position taken up by Bildad, viz. that the Almighty cannot judge falsely ( Job 8:3 ). In Job 2 accepts the general principle that God judges according to merit....
Job 9:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

waves of the sea. The celebrated Mugah Codex (the earliest quoted in the Massorah itself), App-30, reads "cloud": i.e. thick cloud.
Job 9:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. And treadeth upon the waves - This is a very majestic image. God not only walks upon the waters, but when the sea runs m...
Job 9:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And treadeth upon the waves of the sea— Mr. Heath (following the reading of the Hebrew found in a correct copy) agrees with Houbigant in rendering this, who treadeth on the heights of the clouds;...
Job 9:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. Spreadeth out. "He stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in" ( Isai...
Job 9:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Second Speech ( Job 9:10 ) Job 9:10 are, perhaps, in their religious and moral aspects the most difficult in the book. Driver in his 'Introduction to the Literature of the OT.' analyses t...
Job 9:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Waves of the sea. — Literally, high place of the sea: the sea when and where it runs mountains high. The various physical phenomena of earthquake, eclipse, and hurricane are here described as t...
Job 9:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN Job 9:1-35 ; Job 10:1-22 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply...
Job 9:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Daysman” Job 9:1-35 Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests,...
Job 9:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job now answered Bildad. He first admitted the truth of the general proposition, Of a truth I know that it is so; and then propounded the great question, which he subsequently proceeded to discuss...
Job 9:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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,...
Job 9:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens ,.... The expanse, or what we commonly translate "firmament"; but has its name in the Hebrew language from its being expanded, spread, and stretched out, over t...
Job 9:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. Ver. 8. Which alone spreadeth out the heavens ] Without the help or counsel of any other. As God was alone and by him...
Job 9:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Which alone That is, by his own single power, without any other help. Spreadeth out the heavens He spread them out like a curtain, Psalms 104:2 , when he first created them, and he, in a manner,...
Job 9:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD? (vv.1-13) Job's reply to Bildad occupies two Chapter s, 35 verses longer than Bildad's arguments had taken. But Job acknowledged, "Truly, I know it is so," that i...
Job 9:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Reply to Bildad. B. C. 1520. 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I know it is so o...
Job 9:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Alone, i.e. by his own single power, without any other: help. Spreadeth out the heavens: he spread them out like a curtain, Psalms 104:1,2 ; and he in a manner spreads them again every day, i....
Job 9:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD Strongly affirms the truth of Bildad’s speech as to God’s justice ( Job 9:1 ). Declares the impossibility of fallen man establishing his righteousness with God. The same, a...
Job 9:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 9:5 . Removeth the mountains, by earthquakes. The great mountain ranges have continuous caverns, with interior rivers and lakes. Where liases, iron and sulphur abound, volcanoes form their bed...
Job 9:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Which removeth the mountains. God in nature I. Its almightiness is overwhelmingly grand in its manifestations. “Removeth the mountains,” etc. The whole passage impresses one with the unbounded...
Job 9:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 9:1-18 Job, in answer to Bildad, admits the truth of his arguments, but declines to attempt the justification which can alone entitle him to accept the favourable side of Bil...
Job 9:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Defense Against Suspicion. Both Eliphaz and Bildad had attempted to fasten upon Job some specific wrong, seeking from him a confession to that effect. He therefore defends himself against t...
Job 9:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 1:6 ; Genesis 1:7 ; Isaiah 40:22 ; Isaiah 42:5 ; Isaiah 44:24 ; Jeremiah 10:11 ; Job 37:18 ; Job 38:11 ; John 6:19 ; Matthew 14:25-30 ; Psalms 104:2 ; Psalms 104:3 ; Psalms 33:6...
Job 9:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Who. &c. — A farther description of a black and tempestuous season, wherein the heavens seem to be brought down nearer to the earth. Treadeth — Represseth and ruleth them when they rage and are...

Job 9:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 9:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 9:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 9:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 9:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 9:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 9:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 9:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 9:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 9:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 9:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 9:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 9:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 9:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 9:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 9:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 9:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 9:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 9:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 9:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 9:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 9:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 9:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 9:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes