Proverbs 3:20
18 She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
19 The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
21 My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment.
22 They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
- KJV
- By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
- WEB
- By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
- ASV
- By his knowledge the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew.
- DARBY
- By his knowledge the deeps were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
- BLB
- by His knowledge the depths have been broken up, and the clouds dripped dew.
- ÅB
- Ved hans kunnskap vellet de dype vann fram, og ved den lar skyene dugg dryppe ned.
- OTB
- Ved hans kunnskap ble dypene delt, og skyene drypper dugg.
- B1930
- Ved hans kunnskap vellet de dype vann frem, og ved den lar skyene dugg dryppe ned.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Read in contextPsalms 65:9–12
You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
Read in contextJob 36:27–28
For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
Read in contextGenesis 1:9
And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
Read in contextGenesis 27:28
May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.
Read in contextJob 38:26–28
to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
Read in contextJob 38:8–11
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
Read in contextGenesis 27:37–39
But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
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