Proverbs 8:29
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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Gill's Exposition
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment,.... A perpetual decree, which never has been altered nor never will: he has placed the sand for the bounds 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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
his decree So R.V. marg.; its bound, R.V. text. It may be doubted, however, whether the translators of A.V. did not mean, its(for which they often use his) decree, i.e. the law laid upon it by God for…
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