Proverbs 8:29

In His setting for the sea its limit, || And the waters do not transgress His command, || In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

Literal Standard Version

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

28In His strengthening clouds above, || In His making strong fountains of the deep,

30Then I am near Him, a workman, || And I am a delight—day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,

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Cross References

Job 38:4Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare, if you have known understanding.

Job 38:11And say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows.

Psalms 104:5He has founded earth on its bases, || It is not moved for all time and forever.

Psalms 136:5To Him making the heavens by understanding, || For His kindness [is] for all time.

Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” A declaration of YHWH; “Are you not pained from My presence? Who has made sand the border of the sea, || A perpetual limit, and it does not pass over it, || They shake themselves, and they are not able, || Indeed, its billows have sounded, and they do not pass over.

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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