Job 9:8 - God Stretches Out the Skies

{Job 9:4} God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

{Job 9:5} He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
{Job 9:6} He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
{Job 9:7} He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.
{Job 9:8} He alone stretches out the skies,  and treads on the waves of the sea.
{Job 9:9} He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
{Job 9:10} He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.
{Job 9:11} Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.
{Job 9:12} Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

Job 9:8 is sometimes presented as proof that Jesus is Jehovah; evidently, the thought is that this refers to the Genesis creation, and since we are told that these things were made through the Logos, and since, assuming that Job 9:8 is saying that Jehovah was entirely alone at that time, then they conclude that Jesus is Jehovah.

Job 9:8 is among Job's description of many things that God is doing, or could do, as contrasted with man, who has no control over these things being described. Job 9:8 does not appear to be referring back to the Genesis creation, but rather of what Jehovah is doing or could do. Specifically, every day Jehovah makes the sun rise in the sky, and at night one can see the various stars and constellations. No human can change what Jehovah does. 

Another way that some attempt to use Job 9:8 is in connection with Matthew 8:26 and/or Mark 4:39 and claim that since Job 9:8 says that only Jehovah can control the waves of the sea, that Jesus must be Jehovah, since Jesus commanded the waves to be calm. There is nothing, however, in Job 9:8 that says that Jehovah cannot give authority, through his holy spirit, to another who is not Himself, and this is what we find that He did with His son. We read of Jesus that God gave His holy spirit to Jesus without measure. Jesus' authority, while he was in the days of his flesh (Hebrews 5:7), was from his God (Matthew 9:6,8), and his power was through the holy spirit of his God. (Luke 4:14) Jesus tells us that he performed the works of his God and Father who had sent him. (John 5:36; 8:42; 9:3; 9:4; 10:25,32; 15:24; 17:1,3) And we read of "how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him." (Acts 10:38) Likewise, Jesus plainly stated that he cast our demons by means of God's holy spirit. (Matthew 12:28; Luke 11:20) Thus whatever work Jesus did was the work his God working in him, including the rebuke of the storm. This is illustrated by the works that he did while he in the days of his flesh. (Hebrews 5:7; John 4:34; 5:19,36; 10:25,32; 14:10; 17:4; Acts 2:22; 10:38) Indeed, there are many examples of God's doing his work through others. -- Exodus 3:10,12; 12:17; 18:10; Numbers 16:28; Judges 2:6,18; 3:9,10; 6:34; 11:29; 13:24,25; 14:6,19; 15:14,18; 16:20,28-30, 2 Kings 4:27; Isaiah 43:11, 45:1-6; etc.

Returning to Job 9:8, we should note that the word "alone" (Strong's Hebrew #905, in simple form transliterated as "bad") is evidently being used in contrast with man, so that God alone is he stretches out the skies. This word is used in Job 1:15, where Job's servant tells Job, "I alone am left." Obvious, the servant was not saying that he was the only person left in the whole universe, nor even on earth, but it is used relative to the other servants who had been slain by the Sabeans. Thus, its application is relative to what is being spoken of in comparison.

We should also understand that the actual word form used is transliterated as lə-ḇad-dōw;. This construct is masculine third person singular with a prepositional prefix. Bible Hub gives the transliteration of this prefix as "lə". According to Bible Hub, this prefix means, "with regard to". This prefix appears many times with the Hebrew word often transliterated as "bad", meaning alone, besides, etc. According to Brown-Driver-Briggs, the word bad with this suffix expresses "the idea of by oneself, alone (properly in his, thy, my separation), Genesis 2:18 it is not good for man to be לְבַדּוֺ alone, Genesis 21:28 and A. set the seven lambs לְבַדְּהֶן by themselves (literally in their separation), Genesis 32:17; Genesis 43:32; 2 Samuel 10:8; Isaiah 5:8; Genesis 42:38 הוּא לְבַדּוֺ he alone, Exodus 18:14 אַתָּה לְבַדְּךָ thou alone, Numbers 11:14 אָנֹכִי לְבַדִּי I alone, 1 Kings 19:10,14; Deuteronomy 8:3 not upon bread alone, Deuteronomy 29:13; 2 Samuel 13:32; 2 Samuel 18:24; Isaiah 44:24; Isaiah 49:21; Isaiah 63:3 +; after an oblique case, as a dative Exodus 22:19; Judges 3:20; Psalm 51:6 לְךָ לְבַדְּךָ against thee alone have I sinned; a Genitive Psalm 71:16 I will make mention of צִדְקָֽתְךָ לְבֶַ˜דּךָ׃ the righteousness of thee alone." If one takes a look at the usage in these scriptures, the word is not being used to express the idea of totally being alone without anyone else in the whole universe. The application of the word separates the subject or object from others according to context. In Job 9:8, it separates God from man. God was without man when he stretched forth the heavens. 

What is stated in Job 9:8 certainly does not do away with the fact that all is from the God and Father of Jesus (Isaiah 61:1,2; Micah 5:4; Ephesians 1:3; Mark 10:6; 13:19; Acts 14:15; 17:24; Ephesians 3:9 (TR); 1 Timothy 4:4; Hebrews 3:4) through, or by means of, Jesus, God's firstborn son. -- John 1:3,10; Colossians 1:15-17; Ephesians 3:9; Hebrews 1:2.

At any rate, any thought that Job 9:8 means that Jesus is Jehovah God has to be imagined, assumed and read into what Job stated. There is definitely nothing in the verse that speaks of God as being more than one person, or that one person of Jehovah created through or by means of another person of Jehovah. All this has to be imagined and assumed beyond what is stated, and then added to and read into what is stated. 

References:

Hebrew Analysis of Job 9:8
Definitions by Scholars (Bible Hub)