Proverbs 8:29 (BSB)

when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:29

• 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 8:29: 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 sea everywhere, which it cannot pass, though its waves toss, foam, and roar; this is his decreed place, with which he has shut it up, as with doors...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 8:29: commandment--better, the shore, that is, of the sea. foundations--figuratively denotes the solid structure (Job 38:4; Psa 24:2).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 8:28-31: Pro 8:28-31 In Pro 8:28, Pro 8:29, these two features of the figure of the creation of the world return (the beginning of the firmament, and the embankment of the under waters); hence we see that the discourse here makes a fresh start with a new theme: 28 “When He made firm the ether above, When He restrained the fountains of the waters; 29 When...