Proverbs 8:28

When He made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep showed their might,

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

In Context

27When He established the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle upon the face of the deep,

29When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth;

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Cross References

Genesis 1:9And God said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so.

Genesis 8:2the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

Psalms 104:7At Thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of Thy thunder they hasted away —

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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