Proverbs 8:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Established, Heb. strengthened, by his word and decree, which alone upholds the clouds in the air, which of themselves are thin and weak bodies, and would quickly be dissolved or dispersed. When he strengthened the fountains; when he shut up the several fountains in the cavities of the earth, and kept them there as it were by a song hand for the use of mankind. Of the deep; which have their original from the deep, either from the sea, or from the abyss of waters in the bowels of the earth.

Proverbs 8:28

28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: