Job 26:7

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He stretches out the north over empty space; he hangs the earth upon nothing.

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  • Job 9:8 : 8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
  • Ps 104:2-5 : 2 You cover Yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent curtain. 3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot and walks on the wings of the wind. 4 He makes His messengers winds, His servants flames of fire. 5 He established the earth on its foundations, so that it will never be moved.
  • Isa 40:22 : 22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
  • Gen 1:1-2 : 1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
  • Isa 42:5 : 5 Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all its offspring, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it:
  • Prov 8:23-27 : 23 From eternity I was established, from the beginning, before the origins of the earth. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs heavy with water. 25 Before the mountains were shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth. 26 Before He made the earth, the fields, or the first dust of the world. 27 When He established the heavens, I was there; when He marked out the horizon on the face of the deep.
  • Ps 24:2 : 2 For He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.

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    30Behold, He spreads His light over it and covers the depths of the sea.

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    18Can you spread out the skies with Him, as firm as a molten mirror?

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