Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 9:8

8. Which alone spreadeth out the Heavens , and treadeth upon the waves of the sea :

i. e. By his own single power, without any other help.

He spread them out like a curtain, Ps. 104. 1, 2▪ and he in a manner spreads them again every day; i. e. keeps them spread for the comfort and benefit of this lower World, and doth not roll and fold them up, as he will do in due time: See Isa. 34. 4. 2 Pet. 3. 10. Revel. 6. 14. Or, boweth down the heavens, as the same Hebrew Verb is rendred, Psalm 18. 9. So it is a further description of a black and tempestuous season, wherein the heavens seem to be brought down and nearer to the earth.

i. e. Represseth and ruleth them when they rage and are tempestuous: for treading upon any thing, signifies in Scripture u[illegible: 1+ letters]e Power and Dominion over it; as Deut. 33. 29. Iob 40. 12. Psalm 60. 12. & 91. 13. Luke 10. 19.

Marginal references: Gen. 1. 6.; Heb. heights.