Proverbs 8:26 - Exposition

Before the mountains were settled ( Job 38:6 ). It is questioned where the mountains were supposed to be fixed, and some have thought that they are represented as fixed in the depths of the earth. But, as we learn from Genesis 1:9 , they are regarded as rising from the waters, their foundations are laid in the great deep. So the psalmist, speaking of the waters, says, "They went up by the mountains, they went down by the valleys, unto the place which thou hast founded for them" ( Psalms 104:8 ; comp. Psalms 24:2 ). What is here affirmed of Wisdom is said of Jehovah in Psalms 90:2 , "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God."