He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
⛓ Read Job 9 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'who alone... treads on the waves of the sea' ascribes sea-trampling to God alone. Jesus 'walking on the sea' enacts a prerogative the OT reserves for the Creator; strong Volume and Coherence with the I-AM disclosure that accompanies it.
High confidenceGod alone 'treads upon the waves of the sea,' an act reserved to the Creator. Jesus walking on the sea enacts this exclusively divine prerogative, presenting him in the role Job ascribes to God alone. The verbal correspondence (walking/treading on the sea) is precise and theologically loaded.
High confidence'Who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea' (LXX: walks on the sea as on dry ground). Jesus walking on the sea enacts a divine prerogative ascribed to God alone in Job; the act itself is a theophanic self-disclosure.
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