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God's Unrivaled Power
Job describes God's power as exclusive and absolute. Commentators note the word "alone" is key—no one helps God stretch out the heavens or control the seas. This imagery establishes why a mere human cannot possibly contend with or fully understand the Almighty Creator.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 9:8
18th Century
Theologian
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens - As an expanse, or a curtain (see the notes at Isaiah 40:22).
And treadeth upon the waves o…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 9:8
19th Century
Bishop
Waves of the sea. —Literally, high place of the sea: the sea when and where it runs mountains high. The various …
John Gill
On Job 9:8
17th Century
Pastor
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens The expanse, or what we commonly translate "firmament"; but has its name in the Heb…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 9:1–13
17th Century
Minister
In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied being a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before…