Proverbs 8:31 (BSB)

I was rejoicing in His whole world, delighting together in the sons of men.

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:31

• 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 8:31: Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth,.... In that part of the earth which is habitable; in filling it with inhabitants; in preserving and sustaining it in being, and the inhabitants of it; in governing it, and ordering all things in it for the best, according to his infinite wisdom and the counsel of his will; in bestowing the bounties of his providence, and...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 8:31: Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights [were] with the sons of men. (n) By which is declared that the work of the creation was no pain, but a solace to the wisdom of God. (o) By earth he means men, which is the work of God in whom wisdom took pleasure: in that as for man's sake the divine wisdom...
• 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...