Proverbs 8:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. ”

Proverbs 8:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Genesis 1 ; Job 22 ; Job 26:1-14 ; Job 38 : A world of waters, “great deeps” lying in darkness, this was the picture of the remotest time of which man could form any conception, and yet...
Proverbs 8:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8. Wisdom Speaks in her own Person. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a prof...
Proverbs 8:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

brought forth. Same root as Job 15:7 ; Job 39:1 . Psalms 29:9 ; Psalms 51:5 . Isaiah 45:10 ; Isaiah 51:2 ; Isaiah 66:8 . Hebrew. hul. Not the same word as in Proverbs 8:30 .
Proverbs 8:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. When there were no depths - תהמות tehomoth, before the original chaotic mass was formed. See Ge...
Proverbs 8:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. When (there were) no depths, I was brought forth; when (there were) no fountains abounding w...
Proverbs 8:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Wisdom's Cry Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she...
Proverbs 8:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I was brought forth. — i.e., born. The same word is used in Psalms 51:5 (7), and Job 15:7 .
Proverbs 8:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living pictu...
Proverbs 8:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Finding Wisdom, Finding Life Proverbs 8:22-36 The world did not come into being by chance . It was created by an intelligent Creator. Nothing is arbitrary or by accident. Law is the expression...
Proverbs 8:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of...
Proverbs 8:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; w...
Proverbs 8:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth ,.... Not only in the decree of God, as the head of the elect; foreordained to be the Redeemer of them, and to be the propitiation for their sins; an...
Proverbs 8:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth; when [there were] no fountains abounding with water. Ver. 24. When there were no depths. ] In mentioning God's works of creation, some observe her...
Proverbs 8:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord possessed me As his eternal Wisdom and Word, which was in the beginning with him, John 1:1 , and in him, John 14:10 , and was afterward made flesh , and dwelt among men, as the onl...
Proverbs 8:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

To the writer Proverbs 8:1-36 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and won...
Proverbs 8:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Wisdom Eternal and Divine. 22 The L ORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was...
Proverbs 8:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No depths; no abyss or deep waters, either mixed with the earth, as they were at first, or separated from it. Brought forth; begotten of my Father's essence.
Proverbs 8:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

5) Wisdom Was With God In Creation And Rejoices In The Ongoing Of His Creation ( Proverbs 8:22-31 ). Lest we have any doubt about what wisdom Solomon is speaking about he now makes it very clear (...
Proverbs 8:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 8:22 . Jehovah possessed me . The signification of this verb has been the subject of much discussion; ancient expositors, believing Wisdom here to be the eternal Son of G...
Proverbs 8:24 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 8:22-30 This is a description of the original solitude of God by a witness, His only-begotten and well-beloved Son. I. This solitude was serene and happy. Even among men solitude is not...
Proverbs 8:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 8:1 . Doth not Wisdom cry? This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and W...
Proverbs 8:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

The Lord possessed us in the beginning of His way. Wisdom the first creation of God Here is the noble idea which overturns at a touch all mythological speculations about the origin of things--a...
Proverbs 8:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 8:1-20 14. Fourteenth admonitory discourse concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1-20 ; and...
Proverbs 8:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Origins and the Blessings of the Personal Wisdom
Proverbs 8:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:9 ; Hebrews 1:5 ; John 1:14 ; John 3:16 ; John 5:20 ; Psalms 2:7
Proverbs 8:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

No depths — No abyss or deep waters. Brought forth — Begotten of my father.

Proverbs 8:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 8:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 8:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 8:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 8:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 8:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 8:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 8:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 8:24 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 8:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 8:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Proverbs 8:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 8:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 8:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 8:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes