Proverbs 8:29

When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth;

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

28When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:

30I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;

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Cross References

Job 38:4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell me if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:11And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Psalms 104:5Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

Psalms 136:5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

Jeremiah 5:22Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:23-32

Wisdom Eternal and Divine. 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever 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 highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when… Read the whole commentary →

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