John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:27
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... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 8:22-31
That it is an intelligent and divine person that here speaks seems very plain, and that it is not meant of a mere essential property of the divine nature, for Wisdom here has personal properties and actions; and that intelligent divine person can be no other than the Son of God himself, to whom the principal things here spoken of wisdom are attributed in other scriptures, and we must explain scripture by itself. If Solomon himself designed only the praise of wisdom as it is an attribute of... read more