Proverbs 8:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compassf upon the face of the depth: ”

• Proverbs 8:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  A compass - Better as in the margin and Job 22:14 (see the note), i. e., the great vault of heaven stretched over the deep seas.

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  compass . a circle, or vault.

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• Proverbs 8:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he prepared the heavens, I was there - For there is no part of the creation of God in which wisdom,...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he prepared the heavens, I (was) there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth. "P...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  When he set a compass upon the face of the depth — i.e., when He stretched the vault of heaven over it: the same expression is used in Job 22:14 . It is also interpreted of the circle of the hor...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there ,.... Made, beautified, and adorned them; when he gave them their form, figure, magnitude, and motion; when he garnished them with the sun, moon, and star...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: Ver. 27. When he prepared the heavens. ] Or, Caused them to be prepared, took order to have it done,...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When he prepared the heavens I was there Not as an idle spectator, but as a co-worker with my Father. When he set a compass upon the face of the depth Of that great abyss of water and earth, mixe...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I was there, not as an idle spectator, but as a co-worker with my Father. Of the depth, i.e. of that great and deep abyss of water and earth mixed together, which is called both earth and wate...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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 (...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - 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...

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• Proverbs 8:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Origins and the Blessings of the Personal Wisdom

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• Proverbs 8:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Colossians 1:16 ; Hebrews 1:2 ; Isaiah 40:11 ; Isaiah 40:22 ; Jeremiah 10:12 ; Psalms 103:19 ; Psalms 136:5 ; Psalms 33:6

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• Proverbs 8:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  I was there — As co — worker with my Father. Depth — Of that great abyss of water and earth mixed together, which is called both earth and water and the deep, Genesis 1:2 , when he made this lower...

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