Proverbs 8:30 (BSB)
Then I was a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight day by day, rejoicing always in His presence.
From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 8:30
- 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 8:30: 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 nearness to him, his equality with him, and his distinction from him: he was by him when the names of God's elect were put down in...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 8:30: one brought up--an object of special and pleasing regard. The bestowal of wisdom on men is represented by its finding a delightful residence and pleasing God.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 8:30: Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him; (m) Some read, a chief worker signifying that this wisdom, Christ Jesus, was equal with God his father, and created, preserves and still works with him, as in .