Példabeszédek 8:27

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he prepared: Psalms 33:6, Psalms 103:19, Psalms 136:5, Jeremiah 10:12, Colossians 1:16, Hebrews 1:2

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

Reciprocal: Job 37:18 - spread Job 38:5 - laid Psalms 148:6 - He hath also Proverbs 3:19 - Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 Hebrews 1:10; and even the third heaven, the place and state of glorified saints, prepared for them from the foundation of the world, Matthew 25:34;

when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: or "compassed the waters with bounds", as Job says, Proverbs 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,

Isaiah 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.

p בחקו חוג "describendo circulum", Montanus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A compass - Better as in the margin and Job 22:14 (see the note), i. e., the great vault of heaven stretched over the deep seas.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 8:27. 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.

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 centre, 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.