Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 9:8

"That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;" — Job 9:8 (ASV)

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 the field of Divine action and the operations of His hands.