SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:27
Cuando componía los cielos, allí estaba yo; cuando señalaba por compás la sobrefaz del abismo;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 8:27
Verse 27. When he prepared the heavens, I was there ] For there is no part of the creation of God in which wisdom, skill, contrivance, are more manifest, than in the construction of the visible heavens. When he set a compass upon the face of the depth ] Does not this refer to the establishment of the law of gravitation? by which all the particles of matter, tending to a common center, would produce in all bodies the orbicular form, which we see them have; so that even the waters are not only retained within their boundaries, but are subjected to the circular form, in their great aggregate of seas, as other parts of matter are. This is called here making a compass, gwj wqjb bechukko chug, sweeping a circle; and even this on the face of the deep, to bring the chaotic mass into form, regularity, and order.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 27. When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there , etc.] Made, beautified, and adorned them; when he gave them their form, figure, magnitude, and motion; when he garnished them with the sun, moon, and stars; then was Christ present, not as a mere spectator, but as a co-worker; (see Hebrews 1:10); and even the third heaven, the place and state of glorified saints, prepared for them from the foundation of the world, ( Matthew 25:34); when he set a compass upon the face of the depth : or “compassed the waters with bounds”, as Job says, ( Proverbs 26:10); or made the earth with the sea globular, which make one terraqueous globe: or “made a circle” f232 ; all around it, called the circle of the earth, on which he sits, ( Isaiah 40:22); this compass may design the vast expanse or firmament of heaven, which is stretched and drawn around the terraqueous globe as a canopy or curtain. Christ was with his Father on the first day’s creation of the heavens; and on the second day, when the firmament was made, and was before them both.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-31 - The Son of God declares himself to have been engaged in the creation of the world. How able, how fit is the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world, who was the Creator of it! The Son of God was ordained, befor the world, to that great work. Does he delight in saving wretche sinners, and shall not we delight in his salvation?
Original Hebrew
בהכינו 3559 שׁמים 8064 שׁם 8033 אני 589 בחוקו 2710 חוג 2329 על 5921 פני 6440 תהום׃ 8415
