Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Who alone stretches out the heavens
And tramples down the waves of the sea;

King James Version

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

He alone spreads out the heavens, he walks on the waves of the sea.

A Conservative Version

who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea,

American Standard Version

That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;

Amplified


Who alone stretches out the heavens
And tramples down the waves of the sea;

Bible in Basic English

By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

Darby Translation

Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the high waves of the sea;

Julia Smith Translation

He alone spread out the heavens and he trod upon the heights of the sea.

King James 2000

Who alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[He is the one] who alone stretches out [the] heavens and [who] tramples on [the] waves of [the] sea.

Modern King James verseion

who alone stretches out the heavens, and walks on the waves of the sea;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He, himself, alone, spreadeth out the heavens, and goeth upon the waves of the sea.

NET Bible

he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Who spreadeth out fire heavens, by himself alone! and marcheth along, on the heights of the sea;

Webster

Who alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Stretching out the heavens by Himself, And treading on the heights of the sea,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
the heavens
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

and treadeth
דּרך 
Darak 
Usage: 63

upon the waves
בּמה 
Bamah 
Usage: 103

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

7 He commands the sun and it does not rise! He seals off the stars. 8 Who alone stretches out the heavens
And tramples down the waves of the sea;
9 He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades and the chambers of the south.

Cross References

Job 37:18

Have you, like him, spread out the skies, strong as a cast metal mirror?

Psalm 104:2-3

You cover yourself with light as with a cloak. You stretch out clouds in the sky like a curtain.

Isaiah 40:22

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

Isaiah 44:24

I am Jehovah, your savior. I am the one who created you. I am Jehovah, the Creator of all things. I alone stretched out the heavens! No one helped me when I made the earth (I was by myself) (Who was with me?).

Zechariah 12:1

The prophetic utterance of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Jehovah declared: Who stretches forth the heavens? Who lays the foundation of the earth? Who forms the spirit of man within him?

Genesis 1:6-7

Then God said: Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters. Let it separate the waters from the waters.

Job 38:11

when I said: 'This far you may come and no farther'; here is where your proud waves halt?

Job 38:16

Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

Psalm 33:6

The heavens were made by the word of Jehovah, and by the breath of his mouth their entire host.

Psalm 77:19

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

Psalm 93:3-4

The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their pounding waves.

Isaiah 42:5

God created the heavens and stretched them out. He fashioned the earth and all that lives there. He gave life and breath to all its people. And now Jehovah God says to his servant:

Jeremiah 10:11

You will say to the idolaters: The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.

Matthew 14:25-30

Just before morning, Jesus walked to them on the water.

John 6:19

They rowed about four miles and saw Jesus walking on the sea. He came close to the boat. They were afraid.

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