Proverbs 8:28

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 disappear, but that the Lord "established" them. WHEN HE STRENGTHENED THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP - He made them of greater density, so as to sink down into their deep bed, and not float above in the air, like the clouds; and strengthened the fountain-beds so that the deep should not break forth, as he proceeds to describe in ....

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 was ordained, before the world, to that great work. Does he delight in saving wretched sinners, and shall not we delight in his salvation?...

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....

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 greatness of the blessings which she offers exhibits in the most marked manner the nothingness of the deceiver's gifts. One is reminded of the celebrated episode of the choice of Hercules, delineated by Xenophon, 'Memorab.,' 2.1. 21, etc. The chapter divides itself into four sections. (1) Introductory (Proverbs 7:1); Wisdom calls on all to listen, and gives reasons for trusting to her ...

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 a decree made for them when they shall fall; and when they do, the Lord makes small the drops of water, which the clouds do drop and distil on men abundantly; the spreadings of which are beyond understanding, and are unaccountable, and must be referred to the power of God; who has settled and established them in the heavens, and the laws of them, Job 26:8; WHEN HE STRENGTHENED THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP; gave them strength, and still continues it, to cast out their waters, which run into the main sea, and feed and fill it, and return to their place again; which strength of flowing and reflowing can be attributed to nothing else but to the great power of God,...

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 8:32) Proverbs 8:1. This is one of the most interesting Chapter s in the entire book. It begins with a call and appeal of wisdom, much like the call and appeal of the first chapter. If wisdom calls, has a voice, then wisdom must also be a person. Who personified wisdom is we learn most blessedly in this chapt

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 profounder presentation of wisdom as the moving principle in the ways of God. It reinforces the practical maxims of Proverbs 8:1 with the fundamental principle that the wise man is in harmony with God. Its date probably fixes the date of the whole section (see Introduction, and for a fuller discussion especially Cheyne, _Job and Solomon,_ pp. 156f.). The relation of the conception of Wisdom personified to the Stoic Logos and to Greek philosophy in general cannot be discussed here. (See _Wisdom Literature_ in HDB, and especially the excellent introduction by Holmes to the Book of Wisdom in Charles-' _Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha._) The two main lines of development of this conception in H

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 43:16, "the mighty waters....

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 were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water. 25. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth; 26. While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world. 27. When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep, 28. When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong, 29. When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, Wh