Job 9:8

Which maketh Arcturus,.... By which is meant not a single star, but a collection of stars, as Bar Tzemach and Ben Melech, a constellation; hence we read of Arcturus and his sons, Job 38:32. Aben Ezra…

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens - As an expanse, or a curtain; see the notes at Isa 40:22. And treadeth upon the waves of the sea - Margin, “Heights.” So it is in the Hebrew. It means the “high…

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…

The point lies in the gigantic power of God who "alone" and of Himself stretched out the heavens; cf. the expression of the same idea of power, Isa 40:12; Isa 44:24. In Isa 40:22 it is said that God…