Teks -- Proverbs 8:27 (NET)

8:27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

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Wesley: Pro 8:27 - I was there

As co - worker with my Father.

Wesley: Pro 8:27 - Depth

Of that great abyss of water and earth mixed together, which is called both earth and water and the deep, Gen 1:2, when he made this lower world in the form of a globe.

JFB: Pro 8:27 - when he set . . . depth

Marked out the circle, according to the popular idea of the earth, as circular, surrounded by depths on which the visible concave heavens rested.

Clarke: Pro 8:27 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there

When he prepared the heavens, I was there - For there is no part of the creation of God in which wisdom, skill, contrivance, are more manifest, than in the construction of the visible heavens

Clarke: Pro 8:27 - When he set a compass upon the face of the depth

When he set a compass upon the face of the depth - Does not this refer to the establishment of the law of gravitation? by which all the particles of matter, tending to a common center, would produce in all bodies the orbicular form, which we see them have; so that even the waters are not only retained within their boundaries, but are subjected to the circular form, in their great aggregate of seas, as other parts of matter are. This is called here making a compass, בחקו חוג bechukko chug , sweeping a circle; and even this on the face of the deep, to bring the chaotic mass into form, regularity, and order.

Defender: Pro 8:27 - compass

"Compass" (Hebrew khug) is the same word as "circle" in Isa 40:22, as well as "compassed" in Job 26:10. All three clearly refer to the roundness of the earth, especially to the spherical nature of sea level defining the global shape of the earth. The Bible never teaches a flat earth, though the charge is frequently made.

Defender: Pro 8:27 - depth

"Depth" is the same word as "deep.""

TSK: Pro 8:27 - he prepared // compass

he prepared : Psa 33:6, Psa 103:19, Psa 136:5; Jer 10:12; Col 1:16; Heb 1:2

compass : or, circle, Isa 40:11, Isa 40:22

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Poole: Pro 8:27 - I was there // Of the depth

I was there not as an idle spectator, but as a co-worker with my Father.

Of the depth i.e. of that great and deep abyss of water and earth mixed together, which is called both earth and water , and the deep, Gen 1:2 . When he made this lower world round, or in the form of a globe, agreeable to the form of the upper world.

Gill: Pro 8:27 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there // when he set a compass upon the face of the depth

When he prepared the heavens, I was there,.... Made, beautified, and adorned them; when he gave them their form, figure, magnitude, and motion; when he garnished them with the sun, moon, and stars; then was Christ present, not as a mere spectator, but as a co-worker; see Heb 1:10; and even the third heaven, the place and state of glorified saints, prepared for them from the foundation of the world, Mat 25:34;

when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: or "compassed the waters with bounds", as Job says, Pro 26:10; or made the earth with the sea globular, which make one terraqueous globe: or "made a circle" ^p; all around it, called the circle of the earth, on which he sits, Isa 40:22; this compass may design the vast expanse or firmament of heaven, which is stretched and drawn around the terraqueous globe as a canopy or curtain. Christ was with his Father on the first day's creation of the heavens; and on the second day, when the firmament was made, and was before them both.