when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
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...
Commenting on Proverbs 8:22-31
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...
commandment--better, the shore, that is, of the sea. foundations--figuratively denotes the solid structure (Job 38:4; Psa 24:2).