While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
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Gill's Exposition
While as yet he had not made the earth,.... That is, the Lord, who possessed Wisdom, or Christ, and by whom he was set up; he as yet had not made the earth, when this was done; this shows that the…
Barnes' Notes
The highest part of the dust of the world - literally, “the head of the dusts of the world;” an image of either: (1) the dry land, habitable, fit for cultivation, as contrasted with the waters of the…
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…
Cambridge Bible
highest part Rather, beginning; R.V. text ("or sum," marg.); i.e. the primary elements out of which other things were subsequently formed. Comp. "all his work which God createdand made," Gen 2:3.
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