Verse 8
8. Alone Creation is solely the work of God. This gives him sole proprietorship. In argument the word “alone” tells against Job.
Spreadeth out נשׂה . Hitzig and Umbreit render, bendeth, (the arch of the sky,) an act which God, and he alone, still perpetuates.
Waves of the sea Literally, heights, the highest waves. The Egyptian hieroglyphic for the impossible, was a man walking on water. God’s footsteps tread the heights of the sea a sublime conception, which, like the whole description of God’s works, selects outstanding points, “illuminating only with a single ray the heaven-reaching heights of the divine power.” Some argue a strophic arrangement of the book from the article placed before a participle at the beginning of each verse in strophe b, while the participles in strophe c, similarly situated, dispense with it. From the fifth verse to the eleventh, the verbs in the present tense indicate that God’s work of creation, as well as of providence, is ever going on.
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