Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 who commands the sun, and it does not rise, and seals up the stars, 8 who alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea, 9 who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south,


Cross References

Job 37:18

Can thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong as a molten mirror?

Psalm 104:2-3

who covers thyself with light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

Isaiah 40:22

[It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in,

Isaiah 44:24

Thus says LORD, thy Redeemer, and he who formed thee from the womb: I am LORD, who makes all things, who stretches forth the heavens alone, who spreads abroad the earth (who is with me?),

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of LORD concerning Israel. [Thus] says LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:

Genesis 1:6-7

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Job 38:11

and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed?

Job 38:16

Have thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or have thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

Psalm 33:6

By the word of LORD were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

Psalm 77:19

Thy way was in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters. And thy footsteps were not known.

Psalm 93:3-4

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves.

Isaiah 42:5

Thus says God, LORD, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth, he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk in it,

Jeremiah 10:11

Thus ye shall say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

Matthew 14:25-30

And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking upon the sea.

John 6:19

Therefore having impelled forward about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and coming near to the boat, and they were afraid.

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