Proverbs 8:29

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

Young's Literal Translation

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 wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

Job 38:11And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

Psalms 104:5He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

Psalms 136:5To Him making the heavens by understanding, For to the age [is] His kindness.

Jeremiah 5:22Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not 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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