Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Then I was by him, (as) one brought up (with him) - (John 1:1-2) The expression "by Him" implies the distinct personality of Wisdom, and that it is not a mere attributive in God. The, Chaldaic paraphrases, 'I was nursed at His side' х 'aamown (H525)], corresponding to John 1:18, "the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father:" never, separated from the Father; who seeth the Father always; who seeth what the Father doeth, so that He doeth the same Himself (with the same will and power): in whom the Father is well pleased: the Father willing it that we should come to Him in the Son, and honour the Son as Himself (Cocceius). (Compare John 5:20.) The Septuagint [harmozousa: composing in harmony; fitly forming and arranging all things]. Vulgate, Arabic, and Syriac take is actively, as in Numbers 11:12, "a nursing Father:" 'nourisher' (margin, Jeremiah 46:25; Nahum 3:8, margin) A workman," as a cognate Hebrew word, is taken in Song of Solomon 7:1. 'I was by Him as the Artificer' in the creation of all things. So Maurer. I prefer the English version, with the Chaldaic (Mercer and Buxtorf).
And I was daily (his) delight, rejoicing always before him - (Matthew 3:17; Colossians 1:13, margin) The image is from children, which, when playing in the sight of their nurses, are their delight. The truth meant is, 'I was by Him as the closest and the supreme object of the Father's delight.'