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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 9:8

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.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 9:8. _AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES_] This is a very majestic image. God not only walks upon the waters, but when the sea runs mountains high, he steps from billow to billow in his almighty a...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHICH ALONE SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS - As an expanse, or a curtain; see the notes at Isaiah 40:22. AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF THE SEA - Margin, “Heights.” So it is in the Hebrew. It means the “hi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 9-10 JOB ANSWERS BILDAD _ 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1)_ 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22) 4. Confession of we...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 9:1 is Job's answer to the position taken up by Bildad, viz. that the Almighty cannot judge falsely (Job 8:3). In Job 2 accepts the general principle that God judges according to merit. But of wha...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WAVES OF THE SEA. The celebrated Mugah Codex (the earliest quoted in the _Massorah_ itself), App-30, reads "cloud": i.e. thick cloud....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The point lies in the gigantic power of God who "alone" and of Himself stretched out the heavens; cf. the expression of the same idea of power, Isaiah 40:12; Isaiah 44:24. In Isaiah 40:22 it is said t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Description of God's omnipotent power as it displays itself in the material world. _they know not_ Suddenly and unexpectedly, Psalms 35:8; Jeremiah 50:24....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF THE SEA— Mr. Heath (following the reading of the Hebrew found in a correct copy) agrees with Houbigant in rendering this, _who treadeth on the heights of the clouds;_ wh...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. NOT GUILTYTHE CRIME OF INNOCENCEJOB'S CRY (Job 9:1, Job 10:22) 1. Man is no match before the all-powerful, all-wise God. (Job 9:1-12) TEXT 9:1-12 9 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 Of a truth I k...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WHICH ALONE SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS, AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF THE SEA._ Spreadeth out. "He stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in" (Isaiah 40:2...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:8 waves (c-12) Or 'extent.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Cp. Isaiah 40:22. The points of resemblance between the book of Job and the latter part of Isaiah are striking and frequent....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S SECOND SPEECH (JOB 9:10) Job 9:10 are, perhaps, in their religious and moral aspects the most difficult in the book. Driver in his 'Introduction to the Literature of the OT.' analyses them as f...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 9 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S F...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Some people may think that they are strong or powerful. But God is much more powerful than any person. The Bible says that God made everything (Genesis chapter 1). He made our wonderful world. He plac...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נֹטֶ֣ה שָׁמַ֣יִם לְ בַדֹּ֑ו וְ֝ דֹורֵ֗ךְ עַל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN JOB 9:1; Job 10:1 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply. Yes, yes; it...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE DAYSMAN” Job 9:1 Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests, Job 9:6;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Job now answered Bildad. He first admitted the truth of the general proposition, Of a truth I know that it IS so; and then propounded the great question, which he subsequently proceeded to discuss in...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Heavens, like a tent, Psalm ciii. 2. These nations lived under tents; (Calmet) and beholding the magnificent one which God had spread over the heads of alol, Job, in rapture, (Haydock) wonders that h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (5) Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. (6) Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. (7) Which commandeth the sun, a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHICH ALONE SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS,.... The expanse, or what we commonly translate "firmament"; but has its name in the Hebrew language from its being expanded, spread, and stretched out, over the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. Ver. 8. _Which alone spreadeth out the heavens_] Without the help or counsel of any other. As God was alone and by himse...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Which alone_ That is, by his own single power, without any other help. _Spreadeth out the heavens_ He spread them out like a curtain, Psalms 104:2, when he first created them, and he, in a manner, sp...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB'S DEFENSE AGAINST SUSPICION. Both Eliphaz and Bildad had attempted to fasten upon Job some specific wrong, seeking from him a confession to that effect. He therefore defends himself against this...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, like an immense tent, Isaiah 40:22, AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF THE SEA, He is their Master; though they rise up in threatening heights, Psalms 107:26, at His...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD? (vv.1-13) Job's reply to Bildad occupies two Chapter s, 35 verses longer than Bildad's arguments had taken. But Job acknowledged, "Truly, I know it is so," that is, h...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WAVES: _ Heb._ heights...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-13 In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more tha...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ALONE, i.e. by his own single power, without any other: help. SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS: he spread them out like a curtain, PSALMS 104:1,2; and he in a manner spreads them again every day, i.e. keeps...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 9:8 out H5186 (H8802) heavens H8064 treads H1869 (H8802) waves H1116 sea H3220 Which -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job answers Bildad, denying he is a hypocrite. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Bildad. CONCLUSION: Man is an unequal match for his Maker, either in dispute or combat. If God should deal with any of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 9:5. _Removeth the mountains,_ by earthquakes. The great mountain ranges have continuous caverns, with interior rivers and lakes. Where liases, iron and sulphur abound, volcanoes form their beds o...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Which removeth the mountains._ GOD IN NATURE I. Its almightiness is overwhelmingly grand in its manifestations. “Removeth the mountains,” etc. The whole passage impresses one with the unbounded ene...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:1 Job responds, in a speech that is relentlessly legal: ch. Job 9:1 is framed by the term CONTEND ...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:3 Job does not respond further to the specifics of Bildad’s argument. Instead he describes the difficulty of anyone arguing a case before God (vv. Job 9:3), given his power and stren...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD_ Strongly affirms the truth of Bildad’s speech as to God’s justice (Job 9:1). Declares the impossibility of fallen man establishing his righteousness with God. The same, already...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 9:1 Job, in answer to Bildad, admits the truth of his arguments, but declines to attempt the justification which can alone entitle him to accept the favourable side of Bildad's alterna...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job answers him and he said, I know it is true (Job 9:1-2): What? That God is fair. That God is just. Now that is something that we need to all know. That is true. God is righteous. God is just. Th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Genesis 1:6; Genesis 1:7; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 44:24;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Who. &c. — A farther description of a black and tempestuous season, wherein the heavens seem to be brought down nearer to the earth. Treadeth — Represseth and ruleth them when they rage and are tempes...

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