Proverbs 8:27 (NASBStr)
“When He established the heavens, I was there,
When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
Proverbs 8:27 (ESV)
27 When he established the heavens, I was there;
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
Solomon is in the middle of telling us that wisdom was with God in the beginning of the world and before creation, showing to the read both the worth of wisdom and the accessibility of its benefits. Wisdom is said to be the fear the Lord. So, how was wisdom there, at the beginning? Actually, the previous statement is not totally accurate. The Fear of The Lord is the "beginning" of wisdom. What we have here in chapter eight is the description of wisdom. God is wisdom. Read 1 Corinthian 1, 2. We read there that Christ is wisdom. So, since Christ was there in the beginning, wisdom was there in the beginning. In the above proverb we read that wisdom was there when God established the heavens and was there when God inscribed the circle on the face off the deep. Read the same verse in the NIV Bible:
Proverbs 8:27 (NIV1984)
I was there when he set the heavens in place,
when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,
Note also:
Job 26:10 (NASBStr)
“He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters
At the boundary of light and darkness.
We don't know what the "circle" is all about. It can mean the horizons. It can mean the canopy that was placed over the earth at creation. We simply don't know the exact meaning. But the point of the proverb is not to describe creation. The proverb is written to convince us that wisdom is worthy to pursue. We pursue it by faith in Christ. Solomon wants us to pursue wisdom by faith and not folly by the flesh. He wants us to believe the value of wisdom. He is speaking in human terms. You can't actually describe the infinite in finite terms. But he is making sure we know the value of wisdom. Since it was there in the beginning of time, it is worthy to be followed in this time.
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