Job 9:8

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

Key Reflection

In Job 9:8, the speaker refers to God's control over celestial phenomena, highlighting His supreme power. The original audience would have understood this as a powerful theological statement, recognizing that only a divine being could command the sun not to rise and seal up the stars, concepts that would evoke images of cosmic chaos and turmoil in their understanding of the world.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens -As an expanse, or a curtain; see the notes atIsaiah 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.

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