Proverbs 8:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁹When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Proverbs 8:29 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 104:9
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Genesis 1:9-10
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. …
Job 38:4-11
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. …
Psalms 33:7
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Continents God Graces Guidance Ignorance Knowledge

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. 29)

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…