Proverbs 8:30

Then I was by him, as one brought up with him,.... He was then, and from all eternity, "by him", or "with him" (q); which denotes his co-existence with God, and his relation to him as his Father; his…

As one brought up with him - i. e., As his foster child. Others take the word in the original in another sense, “I was as his artificer,” a rendering which falls in best with the special point 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…

one brought upwith him] The Heb. root is used of bringing up a child, acting as nurse or foster-parent to it, Rth 4:16; Est 2:7. Hence the translation of A. V. But it may also be applied to one who…