Proverbs 8:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

Proverbs 8:26 —

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Genesis 1:1-31
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. …

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Atheism Atoms of Matter Attributes of God Creation Earth Geology God Graces

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

22-31. Strictly, God’s attributes are part of Himself. Yet, to the poetical structure of the whole passage, this commendation of wisdom is entirely consonant. In order of time all His attributes are coincident and eternal as Himself. But to set forth the importance of wisdom as devising the products of benevolence and power, it is here assigned a precedence. As it has such in divine, so should it…