He alone stretches out the heavens,
and treads on the waves of the sea.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Job 9:8 in context
Job 9:5–11
5
He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it,
when he overturns them in his anger.
6
He shakes the earth out of its place.
Its pillars tremble.
7
He commands the sun and it doesn’t rise,
and seals up the stars.
8
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He alone stretches out the heavens,
and treads on the waves of the sea.
9
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades,
and the rooms of the south.
10
He does great things past finding out;
yes, marvelous things without number.
11
Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him.
He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.
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