Proverbs 8:27 (BSB)

I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 8:22-31: 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 actions; and that intelligent divine person can be no other than the Son of God himself, to whom the principal things here spoken of wisdom are attributed in other...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 8:27: When he prepared the heavens, I was there,.... 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 Heb 1:10; and even the third heaven, the place and state of glorified saints, prepared for them from...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 8:27: when he set . . . depth--marked out the circle, according to the popular idea of the earth, as circular, surrounded by depths on which the visible concave heavens rested.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 8:27: Pro 8:27 But not only did her existence precede the laying of the foundation of the world; she was also actively taking part in the creative work: “When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He measured out a circle for the mirror of the multitude of waters.” Again a sentence clothed with two designations of time. The adv.