Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 8:27-29
Proverbs 8:27-29. When he prepared the heavens I was there Not as an idle spectator, but as a co-worker with my Father. When he set a compass upon the face of the depth Of that great abyss of water and earth, mixed together, which is called both earth, and water, and the deep, (Genesis 1:2,) when he made this lower world in the form of a globe. When he established the clouds above Hebrew, strengthened them, by his word and decree, which alone upholds the clouds in the air,... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 8:29
The decree of the sea We live under the reign of law. This fact is taken to be the late revelation of modern science. But it is embedded in Old Testament teaching. There we see that the laws of nature, which are but the ways of God on earth, are recognized as fixed and stable. But the Bible helps us in two ways in examining those laws. First, it traces them back to their origin in a personal will. These are not merely channels of a blind force. They are decrees of an authority. Secondly,... read more