when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
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 established the clouds above,.... In which the waters are bound, and yet are not rent under them; and where, in the thin air, they hang heavy with them; where they are weighed by measure, and a decree made for them when they shall fall; and when they do, the Lord makes small the drops of water, which the clouds do drop and distil...
established . . . deep--that is, so as to sustain the waters above and repress those below the firmament (Gen 1:7-11; Job 26:8).