Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Proverbs 8:28
Verse Proverbs 8:28. The clouds above] שחקים shechakim, "the ethereal regions," taking in the whole of the atmosphere, with all its meteors, clouds, vapours, c.
Verse Proverbs 8:28. The clouds above] שחקים shechakim, "the ethereal regions," taking in the whole of the atmosphere, with all its meteors, clouds, vapours, c.
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1)_ 2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12) 3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22) 4. The renewed appeal ...
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 profoun...
CLOUDS. skies, or finer clouds. DEEP. abyss....
_established the clouds_) Rather, MADE FIRM THE SKIES, R.V. he _strengthened_ Rather, _when the fountains of the deep_ BECAME STRONG, R.V. The same Heb. word is used of the sea, Nehemiah 9:11; Isaiah...
TEXT Proverbs 8:22-36 22. Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. 23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was. 24. When there...
When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: WHEN HE ESTABLISHED THE CLOUDS ABOVE. The clouds in their constituents are thin and vapoury, and would soon di...
8:28 strong; (p-14) Or 'when [he] strengthened the fountains of the deep.'...
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 ass...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 V1 The woman, who is called Wisdom, calls out. The woman, who is called Intelligence, is shouting....
WHEN HE ESTABLISHED THE CLOUDS ABOVE. — Literally, _made firm;_ comp. Genesis 1:6. WHEN HE STRENGTHENED THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP. — More probably, _when they flowed forth with strength. _...
בְּ אַמְּצֹ֣ו שְׁחָקִ֣ים מִ מָּ֑עַל בַּ֝ עֲזֹ
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 picture of...
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 of th...
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 t...
_Sky. Protestants, "clouds." Pagnin, "the air." Vulgate æthera. Septuagint, "the clouds above." (Haydock) --- Moses assigns the higher and lower waters the same origin, Genesis i. 7._...
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; wh...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
WHEN HE ESTABLISHED THE CLOUDS ABOVE,.... In which the waters are bound, and yet are not rent under them; and where, in the thin air, they hang heavy with them; where they are weighed by measure, and...
When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: Ver. 28. _When he established the clouds above._] That they might be kept there, as it were in tuns and bottles,...
_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, mixed...
THE ORIGINS AND THE BLESSINGS OF THE PERSONAL WISDOM...
when He established the clouds above, fixing and securing them in their place, to prevent a sadden outpouring of their contents; WHEN HE STRENGTHENED THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP, subduing them, setting...
To the writerProverbs 8:1 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 wonderful...
22-31 The Son of God declares himself to have been engaged in the creation of the world. How able, how fit is the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world, who was the Creator of it! The Son of God w...
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...
Proverbs 8:28 established H553 (H8763) clouds H7834 above H4605 strengthened H5810 (H8800) fountains H5869 deep H8415
5) WISDOM WAS WITH GOD IN CREATION AND REJOICES IN THE ONGOING OF HIS CREATION (PROVERBS 8:22). Lest we have any doubt about what wisdom Solomon is speaking about he now makes it very clear (as he has...
Proverbs 8:22 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 always...
CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks to men. CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ). CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be preferred above a...
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 Wisd...
_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--an id...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:22 THE FIRST OF HIS ACTS OF OLD (v. Proverbs 8:22). Wisdom was present with God when he created the world. Wisdom
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 God, de...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 8:1 14. _Fourteenth admonitory discourse _concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1; and the exceeding grea...
In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...
Deuteronomy 15:7; Genesis 7:11; Job 35:5; Job 36:28; Judges 3:10;...
Strengthened — When he shut up the fountains in the cavities of the earth, and kept them there as it were by a strong band. The deep — Which have their original from the deep, either from the sea, or...
Who is referred to as “wisdom” in these verses? PROBLEM: Many commentators have claimed that the person identified as wisdom in Proverbs 8:22-31 is Jesus, because 1 Corinthians 1:30 states that Jesus...