Amsal 8:26

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Contextual Overview

²² The Lorde him selfe had me in possession in the beginning of his wayes, or euer he began his workes aforetime. ²³ I haue ben ordayned from euerlasting, and from the beginning or euer the earth was made. ²⁴ When I was borne there were neither depthes nor springes of water. ²⁵ Before the foundations of the mountaines were layde: yea before all hilles, was I borne: ²⁶ The earth, and all that is vpon the earth was not yet made, no not the dust it selfe. ²⁷ For when he made the heauens, I was present, when he compassed the deapthes about: ²⁸ When he hanged the cloudes aboue, when he fastened the springes of the deepe: ²⁹ When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth, ³⁰ I was with him ordring all thinges, deliting dayly and reioysyng alway before hym. ³¹ As for the rounde compasse of this worlde I make it ioyfull: for my delite is to be among the chyldren of men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as yet: Genesis 1:1-31

fields: or, open places

highest part: or, chief part

Reciprocal: Job 28:28 - unto man Psalms 90:2 - Before Psalms 95:5 - hands Isaiah 40:12 - measured

Gill's Notes on the Bible

While as yet he had not made the earth,.... That is, the Lord, who possessed Wisdom, or Christ, and by whom he was set up; he as yet had not made the earth, when this was done; this shows that the earth had a beginning, contrary to those philosophers who asserted the eternity of it; that Christ was before that was, for it was made by him; and consequently he must be eternal, and was before any man was, since the earth was made before man; and that he was not of the earth, earthy, as was the first man;

nor the fields; the plain parts of the earth, in opposition to the mountains and hills before mentioned; the valleys and meadows that lay between them, full of grass, flowers, and fruits; pleasant to behold, and profitable to be enjoyed; so the word is also rendered Job 5:10; and "valleys", by the Targum here: or the "out parts" m; the extremities of the earth, the two poles of it; the uninhabitable parts of the earth, as distinct from the habitable part of it afterwards mentioned: or all with out it; the ambient and spacious ether;

nor the highest part of the dust of the world: meaning, not the mountains and hills, which are before mentioned, and are the highest part of the earth; but rather "the chief of the dust of the earth" n, as the words may be rendered; these are the metals and minerals within it; the gold, silver, and precious stones, of which we read very early, Genesis 2:12; or the "beginning", the first and chief, the "prima materia", even the dusts of the world, out of which man and all the creatures were made, Genesis 2:6. Dr. Lister o was of opinion that sand was once the most exterior and general cover of the surface of the whole earth; partly because all our northern mountains are covered with it, more or less, at this day; and partly because of its great hardness, durableness, and unalterable quality; and the higher the mountains be, he says, still the more and coarser the sand is; and if so, this might with propriety be called the highest part of the dust of the earth. But Christ was before any of them, as well as is more excellent than they. Or it may be man is designed, who was made of the dust of the earth; even the first man Adam, so Jarchi, Genesis 2:7; before whom Christ was: yea, the human nature of Christ himself may be meant, which is fairer than any of the children of men, and the chief of all the individuals of human nature; being without sin, and united to the Son of God, and also the curious workmanship of the Spirit of God. Now Christ, as the Son of God, as the only begotten of the Father, existed before his human nature did, or before he was the Son of man.

m חוצות "quae extra sunt", Tigurine version, Vatablus; "exteriora", Cocceius, Michaelis. n ראש "caput", Montanus, Tigurine version; "summam", Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens. o In Philosoph. Transact. abridged, vol. 2. p. 452, 453.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The highest part of the dust of the world - literally, “the head of the dusts of the world;” an image of either:

(1) the dry land, habitable, fit for cultivation, as contrasted with the waters of the chaotic deep; or

(2) man himself. Compare Ecclesiastes 3:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 8:26. The highest part of the dust of the world — ראש עפרות תבל rosh aphroth tebel, "the first particle of matter." The prima materia, the primitive atom. All these verses (Proverbs 8:3-29) are a periphrasis for I existed before creation; consequently before time was. I dwelt in God as a principle which might be communicated in its influences to intellectual beings when formed.