Proverbs 8:27
What meaning of the proverbs 8:27 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 8:27 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compassf upon the face of the depth:"
What does Proverbs 8:27 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compassf upon the face of the depth:"
Verse Proverbs 8:27. _WHEN HE PREPARED THE HEAVENS, I_ WAS _THERE_] For there is no part of the creation of God in which wisdom, skill, contrivance, are more manifest, than in the construction of the...
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....
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 (Proverb...
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...
COMPASS. a circle, or vault....
_compass_ Rather, CIRCLE, R.V. text, A.V. marg. The reference is to the heavens, just mentioned, which seem to stand like a vault or dome upon the sea, marked out by the circle of the horizon on its s...
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 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. "Prepar...
8:27 circle (o-13) See Job 26:10 ; Isaiah 40:22 ....
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. V2 She shouts from the hills by the road...
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 horizon....
בַּ הֲכִינֹ֣ו שָׁ֭מַיִם שָׁ֣ם אָ֑נִי בְּ ח֥וּקֹו ח֝֗וּג עַל ־פְּנֵ֥י תְהֹֽום׃...
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 t...
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...
CHAPTER VIII....
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 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 stars;...
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, vi...
_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...
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...
A COMPASS: Or, a circle...
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...
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 _water_, a...
Proverbs 8:27 prepared H3559 (H8687) heavens H8064 drew H2710 (H8800) circle H2329 face H6440 deep H8415 he prepared - Psalms 33:6, Psalms 103:19, Psalms 136:5; Jeremiah 10:12;...
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 i...
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 WAS DAILY HIS DELIGHT (v. Proverbs 8:30; see also Proverbs...
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 gre...
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...
Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2; Isaiah 40:11; Isaiah 40:22; Jeremiah 10:12; Psalms 103:19; Psalms 136:5; Psalms 33:6...
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 worl...
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...