25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. …
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? …
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. …
And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)That it is an intelligent and divine person that here speaks seems very plain, and that it is not meant of a mere essential property of the divine nature, for Wisdom here has personal properties and actions; and that intelligent divine person can be no other than the Son of God himself, to whom the principal things here spoken of wisdom are attributed in other scriptures, and we must explain scrip…
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