Job 9:8

World English Bible (2000)

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 44:24 : 24 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: "I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
  • Ps 104:2-3 : 2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. 3 He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
  • Isa 40:22 : 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
  • Jer 10:11 : 11 You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
  • Job 37:18 : 18 Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
  • Job 38:11 : 11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
  • Job 38:16 : 16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
  • Ps 33:6 : 6 By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
  • Ps 77:19 : 19 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. 4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
  • Matt 14:25-30 : 25 In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It's a ghost!" and they cried out for fear. 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying "Cheer up! It is I! Don't be afraid." 28 Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters." 29 He said, "Come!" Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus. 30 But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!"
  • John 6:19 : 19 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.
  • Isa 42:5 : 5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
  • Gen 1:6-7 : 6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

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  • Job 9:9-10
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    9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

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    6 It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

    3 He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

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    12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

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    30 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

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    8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

    9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

    10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

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    9 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

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    9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

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    8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

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    7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

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    25 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

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    15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

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    8 "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

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    8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

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    6 Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength;

    7 who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

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    16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

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    9 who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

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    9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

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    6 Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;

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    5 The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

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    22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

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    32 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

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    3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

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    35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name:

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    19 Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

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    5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

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    1 The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

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    11 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

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    11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

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    14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

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    4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

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    16 Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

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    18 Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

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    12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?