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Selected Verse: Proverbs 3:20 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 3:20 |
King James |
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew. |
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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Compare Gen 1:7; Gen 7:11; Job 38. Looking upon the face of Nature, men see two storehouses of the living water, without which it would be waste and barren. From the "depths" rush forth the surging waves, from the "clouds" falls the gentle rain or "dew;" but both alike are ordered by the Divine Wisdom. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
The depths - That great abyss contained in the bowels of the earth, breaks forth into fountains and rivers. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
By his knowledge the depths are broken up - He determined in his wisdom how to break up the fountains of the great deep, so as to bring a flood of waters upon the earth; and by his knowledge those fissures in the earth through which springs of water arise have been appointed and determined; and it is by his skill and influence that vapours are exhaled, suspended in the atmosphere, and afterwards precipitated on the earth in rain, dews, etc. Thus the wisest of men attributes those effects which we suppose to spring from natural causes to the Supreme Being himself. |
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.