Sprueche 3:20

20 Durch seine Weisheit sind die Tiefen zerteilt und die Wolken mit Tau triefend gemacht.

Sprueche 3:20 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 3:20

By his knowledge the depths are broken up
From whence fountains and rivers flow, and whereby that great cavity was made which holds that large confluence of waters called the sea, ( Genesis 1:9 Genesis 1:10 ) . Some refer this to the breaking up the fountains of the great deep at the flood, ( Genesis 7:11 ) ; and others to the dividing of the waters of the Red sea when Israel came out of Egypt, ( Psalms 78:13 ) ; all wonderful works of divine wisdom, and show the greatness of him, in whom are "hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", ( Colossians 2:3 ) , by whom they were done; and the clouds drop down the dew;
which makes the earth fruitful, and is put for all the blessings of nature, ( Genesis 27:28 ) ; the drops of dew are begotten by the Lord, they have no other father but him; the vanities of the Gentiles cannot produce them; he who fills the clouds with them, from whence they descend, is no other than the mighty God; and such is Christ the Wisdom of God. Some understand this in a mystical sense of Gospel ministers, and of the dew of Gospel doctrine, dropped and distilled by them under the influence and direction of Christ; see ( Deuteronomy 32:2 ) ; but the literal sense is best.

Sprueche 3:20 In-Context

18 Sie ist ein Baum des Lebens allen, die sie ergreifen; und selig sind, die sie halten.
19 Denn der HERR hat die Erde durch Weisheit gegründet und durch seinen Rat die Himmel bereitet.
20 Durch seine Weisheit sind die Tiefen zerteilt und die Wolken mit Tau triefend gemacht.
21 Mein Kind, laß sie nicht von deinen Augen weichen, so wirst du glückselig und klug werden.
22 Das wird deiner Seele Leben sein und ein Schmuck deinem Halse.
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