Jób 9:8

Biblia Karoli Gaspar

A ki egymaga feszítette ki az egeket, és a tenger hullámain tapos.

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Which: Job 37:18, Genesis 1:6, Genesis 1:7, Psalms 33:6, Psalms 104:2, Psalms 104:3, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 44:24, Jeremiah 10:11, Zechariah 12:1

treadeth: Job 38:11, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Matthew 14:25-30, John 6:19

waves: Heb. heights

Reciprocal: Job 26:7 - General Isaiah 51:13 - that hath Jeremiah 10:12 - stretched Jeremiah 51:15 - and hath Mark 6:48 - he cometh Mark 6:49 - they saw

Gill's Notes on the 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 earth and all around it; and seems chiefly to design the ether or atmosphere, which is a fine thin matter and substance spread around us, and which is sometimes spread with clouds; this is said to be stretched out like a curtain and a tent to dwell in, tents being made of curtains spread out, Isaiah 40:21; and the allusion may be to a military tent, the pavilion of a general of an army, as Pineda observes, from whence Jehovah plays his artillery upon his enemies, thunder, lightning, hailstones, and coals of fire; see Psalms 18:11; this respects not so much the first creation, or spreading of the air or the heavens, as the continuance thereof; God continues to spread them, or to keep them spread, that they may not be rolled up as a scroll; or folded up as a garment, as they will be, Hebrews 1:12; and this he does alone, without the help of any creature, angels or men; any piece of tapestry or carpet, that is large, is not easily spread alone; but what power must the vast expanse of the heavens require, to be spread alone and continued so? nothing less than infinite; see Isaiah 44:24; some render it, "which boweth the heavens" c, as the same word is rendered in

Psalms 18:9; which he does when he fills them with clouds, so that they seem to hang low, and to be inclined towards the earth:

and treadeth upon the waves of the sea d; which he did at the first creation, when the waters that covered the face of the earth were, by his order, collected into one place, and there shut up, and restrained from overflowing the earth; and which restraint, as it is an act of power over them, is designed by treading upon them, and a continued act may be the rather meant here; see Genesis 1:8; and when the waves of it are lifted up as high as they sometimes are, by strong and stormy winds, the Lord on high is mightier than they, he treads upon them and represses them; he rules their raging, stills their noise, and makes them smooth, calm, and quiet, Psalms 65:7; this none but God can do: the Egyptian hieroglyphic of doing a thing impossible was a man's walking upon water e; the Heathens chose not to describe even their god of the sea, Neptune, by walking on it, as being too great for him, but by swimming f; of Christ's walking upon the sea, see Matthew 14:25; it may be rendered, "the high places of the sea": the waves of it, when mounted to a great height by the wind; so Mr. Broughton, "the high waves of the sea", see

Psalms 107:25; there is a copy, as the lesser Massorah observes, which reads, "upon the high places of the cloud" g, see Isaiah 14:14; and Gersom interprets these high places, of the heavens, and of God's giving rain from thence.

c נטה שמים "inclinat coelum", Piscator. d על במתי ים "super excelsa maris", Pagninus, Montanus, c. "summitates maris", Tigurine version "celsos vertices maris", Schultens. e Orus Apollo, apud Bolduc. f Cicero de Natura Deorum, l. 2. g "Legitur et" עב "pro" ים i.e. "super excelsas nubes", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 “high waves;” that is, he walks upon the waves of the ocean when lifted up by a storm. This is spoken of here as a proof of the greatness of God; and the meaning of all is, that he is seen in the storm, in the heaving ocean, when the heavens are black with tempest, and when the earth is convulsed. It may be added here, that the Lord Jesus walked amidst the howling winds on the lake, and thus gave evidence that he was God; Matthew 14:25. “The Egyptian hieroglyphic for what was not possible to be done, was a man walking on the water.” Burder. Dr. Good, and some others, render this, “on the mountains.” But the more correct rendering is given in the common version. The Hebrew word rendered “waves” (במה bâmâh) indeed properly means a height, a lofty place, a mountain; but the comparison of waves with a mountain, is common in all languages. So we speak of waves “mountain-high,” or as high as mountains. So Virgil, Aeneid i. 105,

Insequitur cumulo praeruptus aquae mons.

Similar to this, is the expression occurring in Homer, κύματα ἶσα ὄρεσσιν kumata isa oressin; and so Apollonius, i. 521 - ἅλὸς ἄκρον chalos akron. The Septuagint renders it, “who walketh upon the sea as upon a pavement.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 and essential majesty. There is a similar sentiment in David, Psalms 29:10: "The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever." But both are far outdone by the Psalmist, Psalms 18:9-15, and especially in these words, Psalms 18:10, He did fly on the wings of the wind. Job is great, but in every respect David is greater.