20By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. …
Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-20)Solomon had pressed us earnestly to seek diligently for wisdom (Prov. 2:1), and had assured us that we should succeed in our sincere and constant pursuits. But the question is, What shall we get by it when we have found it? Prospect of advantage is the spring and spur of industry; he therefore shows us how much it will be to our profit, laying this down for an unquestionable truth, Happy is the ma…
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