Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 26:7

7. He stretcheth out the North over the empty place , and hangeth the earth upon nothing .

i. e. The Northern Pole, or part of the Heavens, which he particularly mentions and puts for the whole visible Heaven, because Iob and his Friends lived in a Nothern Climate, and were acquainted only with that part of the Heavens, the Southern Pole and parts near it being wholly unknown to them. The Heavens are oft and fitly said to be spread or stretched out like a Curtain or Tent, to which they are resembled.

To wit, the Air, so called not Philosophically, as if it were wholly empty, but popularly, because it seems to be so, and is generally void of solid and visible bodies.

Upon its own Center which is but an imaginary thing, and in truth nothing: Or upon no Props or Pillars, but his own Power and Providence: Which is justly celebrated as a wonderful Work of God both in Scripture, and in Heathen Authors.

Marginal references: Chap. 9. 8. Psal. 104. 2, &c.