🌪️WEB · Job 9:8

What does Job 9:8 mean?

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

— Job 9:8 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

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He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

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He commands the sun, and it doesn’t rise, and seals up the stars.

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

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He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

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He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

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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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