Proverbs Chapter 8 verse 27 Holy Bible
When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
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When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:
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When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;
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When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
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When he established the heavens, I was there; When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
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In His preparing the heavens I `am' there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - After asserting the pre-existence of Wisdom, the writer tells her part in the work of creation. When he prepared the heavens, I was there. When God made the firmament, and divided the waters above it and below (Genesis 1:7), Wisdom cooperated. When he set a compass upon the face of the depth. חוּג (chug), "circle," or "circuit" (as Job 22:14), means the vault of heaven, conceived of as resting on the ocean which surrounds the earth, in partial accordance with the notion in Homer, who speaks of the streams of ocean flowing back into itself (ἀψόῥῤοος), 'Iliad,' 18:399; 'Odyssey,' 10:508, etc. That the reference is not to the marking out a limit for the waters is plain from the consideration that this interpretation would make the verse identical with ver. 29. Thus in Isaiah 40:22 we have, "It is he that sitteth above the circle (chug) of the earth;" i.e. the vault of heaven that encircles the earth. Septuagint, "When he marked out (ἀφώριζε) his throne upon the winds." The translators have referred tchom, "depth," to the waters above.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) When he set a compass upon the face of the depth--i.e., when He stretched the vault of heaven over it: the same expression is used in Job 22:14. It is also interpreted of the circle of the horizon.
