Proverbs 8:29 - Exposition

When he gave to the sea his decree ( chok, as Job 28:26 ; Jeremiah 5:22 ); or, its bounds. The meaning is much the same in either case, being what is expressed in Job 38:8 , etc,, "Who shut up the sea with doors …and prescribed for it my decree, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shall thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" The LXX . omits this hemistich. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Job 38:4 , "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?… Who determined the measures thereof? or who stretched the line upon it? Wherein were the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof?"