By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
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Gill's Exposition
By his knowledge the depths are broken up,.... From whence fountains and rivers flow, and whereby that great cavity was made which holds that large confluence of waters called the sea, Gen 1:9. Some…
Barnes' Notes
Compare Gen 1:7; Gen 7:11; Job 38. Looking upon the face of Nature, men see two storehouses of the living water, without which it would be waste and barren. From the “depths” rush forth the surging…
Solomon had pressed us earnestly to seek diligently for wisdom (Pro 2:1, etc.), and had assured us that we should succeed in our sincere and constant pursuits. But the question is, What shall we get…
Cambridge Bible
are Rather, were broken up, R.V. The reference is to Gen 7:2, where the same Heb. word is used: "all the foundations of the great deep were broken up."
The two clauses of the verse give two typical…
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