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Job 9:7

Job 9:7
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not - Schultens supposes that all this is a description of the deluge - when the mountains were removed, when the fountains of the deep were broken up, and when…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 9:1-13

Bildad began with a rebuke to Job for talking so much, Job 8:2. Job makes no answer to that, though it would have been easy enough to retort it upon himself; but in what he next lays down as his…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The reference may be to days when from storm and darkness the sun seems not to rise, or to eclipses and sudden obscurations of the heavenly bodies.