Proverbs 8:30,31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then I was by him Conversant with him, and united to him, as was said before; as one brought up with him As one tenderly and dearly beloved by him. I was daily his delight His elect; in whom his soul delighted, Isaiah 42:1. Rejoicing always before him In constant and most intimate communion with him. Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth In the vast variety of creatures wherewith the earth was beautified and enriched; and my delights were with the sons of men Made after the likeness of God, and capable of converse with him. Then I delighted to uphold them by my power and providence, to reveal myself, and my Father's mind and will to them, from age to age, to assume their nature, and to redeem and save them. “The wisdom of God,” says Calmet, “communicated itself to men preferably to all other sensible creatures; having given to them alone intelligence, and souls capable of the illumination of prudence, and of the practice of virtue. The Son of God, the eternal wisdom, abundantly proved his delight to be with the sons of men, when for their instruction and salvation he took upon him a human form.”