Proverbs 8:27
In His preparing the heavens I [am] there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
In Context
26While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.
28In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,
Cross References
Psalms 33:6By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.
Psalms 136:5To Him making the heavens by understanding, For to the age [is] His kindness.
Isaiah 40:11As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth [them]: Suckling ones He leadeth.
Jeremiah 10:12The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,
Hebrews 1:2in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;
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 →