Job 9:8
Good News Translation
No one helped God spread out the heavens or trample the sea monster's back.

New Revised Standard Version
who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the Sea;

Contemporary English Version
God alone stretched out the sky, stepped on the sea,

New American Bible
He alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the back of the sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.

Which

Job 37:18 Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.

Genesis 1:6,7 And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters. . . .

Psalm 33:6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the power of them by the spirit of his mouth:

Psalm 104:2,3 And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion: . . .

Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith the Lord God that created the heavens, and stretched them out: that established the earth, and the things that spring out of it: that giveth breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that tread thereon.

Isaiah 44:24 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, and thy maker, from the womb: I am the Lord, that make all things, that alone stretch out the heavens, that established the earth, and there is none with me.

Jeremiah 10:11 Thus then shall you say to them: The gods that have not made heaven and earth, let them perish from the earth, and from among those places that are under heaven.

Zechariah 12:1 The burden of the word of the Lord upon Israel. Thus saith the Lord, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundations of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man in him:

treadeth

Job 38:11 And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Psalm 93:3,4 The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, . . .

Matthew 14:25-30 And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them walking upon the sea. . . .

John 6:19 When they had rowed therefore about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking upon the sea and drawing nigh to the ship. And they were afraid.

waves.

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
7Who commandeth the sun, and it riseth not: and shutteth up the stars, as it were, under a seal: 8Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and walketh upon the waves of the sea.9Who maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and Hyades, and the inner parts of the south.…
Cross References
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

Job 26:7
He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Job 26:13
His spirit hath adorned the heavens, and his obstetric hand brought forth the winding serpent.

Job 37:18
Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.

Job 38:16
Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?

Psalm 77:19
Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters: and thy footsteps shall not be known.

Psalm 104:2
And art clothed with light as with a garment. Who stretchest out the heaven like a pavilion:

Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

Isaiah 51:13
And thou hast forgotten the Lord thy maker, who stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth: and thou hast been afraid continually all the day at the presence of his fury who afflicted thee, and had prepared himself to destroy thee: where is now the fury of the oppressor?

Jeremiah 10:12
He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth the world by his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens by his knowledge.

Jeremiah 51:15
He that made the earth by his power, that hath prepared the world by his wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

Job 9:7
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