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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.
 
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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.