Proverbs 8:30 - Exposition

Then I was by him. Wis. 9:9, "Wisdom was with thee; which knoweth thy works, and was present when thou madest the world." So John 1:2 , "The Word was with God." As one brought up with him; Vulgate, cuncta componens ; Septuagint, ημην παρ αὐτῷ ἁρμόζουσα , "I was with him arranging things in harmony." The Hebrew word is אָמוֹן ( amon ), "an artificer," "workman" ( Jeremiah 52:15 ). Thus in Wis. 7:22 Wisdom is called ἡ πάντων τεχνῖτις , "the worker of all things." The Authorized Version takes the word in a passive state, as equivalent to alumnus, "foster child." and this interpretation is etymologically admissible, and may possibly, as Schultens suggests, be glanced at in St. John's expression ( John 1:18 ), "the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father." But as the point here is the creative energy of Wisdom, it is best to take the term as denoting "artificer." It will then accord with the expression δημιουργὸς , applied by the Fathers to the Word of God, by whom all things were made ( Ephesians 3:9 , Textus Receptus, and Hebrews 1:2 ). And I was daily his delight; literally, I was delights day by day, which may mean either as in Authorized Version, or "I had delight continually," i.e. it may signify