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Selected Verse: Proverbs 8:29 - Young's Literal
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 8:29 |
Young's Literal |
In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth, |
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King James |
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
commandment--better, the shore, that is, of the sea.
foundations--figuratively denotes the solid structure (Job 38:4; Psa 24:2). |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
When he gave to the sea his decree - When he assigned its limits, adjusted its saltness, and proportioned the extent of the surface to the quantity of vapors to be raised from it, for the irrigation of the terrene surface.
The foundations of the earth - Those irreversible laws by which all its motions are governed; its annual and diurnal rotation, and particularly its centrifugal and centripetal forces; by the former of which it has its annual motion round the sun like all other planets; and by the latter all its particles are prevented from flying off, notwithstanding the great velocity of its motion round its own axis, which causes one thousand and forty-two miles of its equator to pass under any given point in the heavens in the course of a single hour! These are, properly speaking, the foundations of the earth; the principles on which it is constructed, and the laws by which it is governed. |
2 For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.
4 Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.