Proverbs 8:27

27. The teacher now ascends to the visible heavens, (the region of the atmosphere,) as they appear to the eye.

When he prepared בהכינו , prepared, disposed, adjusted, according to their established order or laws.

The heavens The רקיע , ( rakia’h,) or expanse of Genesis 1:6.

When he set a compass In his defining the circle, or sphere: when he described a circle upon the face of the depth, תהום , ( tehom,) the abyss, of the atmosphere; more probably of the apparent resting of the concave heavens, the atmosphere the sphere of air over the abyss beneath; a poetic description in accordance with the appearance.

I was there Hebrews, emphatic There was I. Comp. Isaiah 40:22; Job 26:10. Translation, according to the sense: When he disposed the heavens there was I when he swept (his) circle upon the face of the (great) abyss.

There is in this and the following verses a change in the form of the predicate concerning wisdom. When the antemundane period is spoken of, the ‘holam eternity “ the beginning,” she belonged to Jehovah she existed as the attribute of the eternal Mind. She was produced, originated, (a poetical conception of the period of actual exertion or manifestation,) when she began to act, as in the work of creation. She was there, was with him.