Proverbs 3:20 (BSB)
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
From Proverbs 3. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 3:20
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 3:13-20: 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 by it when we have found it?
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 3:20: 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 refer this to the breaking up the fountains of the great deep at the flood, Gen 7:11; and others to the dividing of the waters of the Red sea when Israel...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 3:19-20: Pro 3:19-20 This place of a mediatrix - the speaker here now continues - she had from the beginning. God’s world-creating work was mediated by her: 19 Jahve hath by wisdom founded the earth, Established the heavens by understanding. 20 By His knowledge the water-floods broke forth, And the sky dropped down dew.