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Példabeszédek 8:28
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:7 - divided Genesis 1:9 - General Genesis 7:11 - all Genesis 8:2 - fountains Psalms 104:7 - At thy Psalms 146:6 - the sea Matthew 8:26 - and rebuked
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When he established the clouds above,.... In which the waters are bound, and yet are not rent under them; and where, in the thin air, they hang heavy with them; where they are weighed by measure, and a decree made for them when they shall fall; and when they do, the Lord makes small the drops of water, which the clouds do drop and distil on men abundantly; the spreadings of which are beyond understanding, and are unaccountable, and must be referred to the power of God; who has settled and established them in the heavens, and the laws of them,
Job 26:8;
when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; gave them strength, and still continues it, to cast out their waters, which run into the main sea, and feed and fill it, and return to their place again; which strength of flowing and reflowing can be attributed to nothing else but to the great power of God, Genesis 7:11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 8:28. The clouds above — שחקים shechakim, "the ethereal regions," taking in the whole of the atmosphere, with all its meteors, clouds, vapours, &c.