Proverbs 3:19
New International Version
By wisdom the LORD laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place;

New Living Translation
By wisdom the LORD founded the earth; by understanding he created the heavens.

English Standard Version
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.

King James Bible
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

New King James Version
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heavens;

New American Standard Bible
The LORD founded the earth by wisdom, He established the heavens by understanding.

NASB 1995
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth, By understanding He established the heavens.

NASB 1977
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heavens.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh by wisdom founded the earth, By discernment He established the heavens.

Amplified Bible
The LORD by His wisdom has founded the earth; By His understanding He has established the heavens.

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.

American Standard Version
Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding he established the heavens.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH in his wisdom laid the foundations of the Earth and the Heavens were established by his understanding;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
God by wisdom founded the earth, and by prudence he prepared the heavens.

Contemporary English Version
By his wisdom and knowledge the LORD created heaven and earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth, hath established the heavens by prudence.

English Revised Version
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
By Wisdom the LORD laid the foundation of the earth. By understanding he established the heavens.

Good News Translation
The LORD created the earth by his wisdom; by his knowledge he set the sky in place.

International Standard Version
By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations, and by understanding he set the heavens in place.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heavens.

Literal Standard Version
YHWH founded the earth by wisdom, | He prepared the heavens by understanding.

Majority Standard Bible
The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.

New American Bible
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth, established the heavens by understanding;

NET Bible
By wisdom the LORD laid the foundation of the earth; he established the heavens by understanding.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;

New Heart English Bible
By wisdom the LORD founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

World English Bible
By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah by wisdom did found the earth, He prepared the heavens by understanding.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Blessings of Wisdom
18She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed. 19The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding. 20By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.…

Cross References
Psalm 104:24
How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Psalm 136:5
By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever.

Proverbs 8:22
The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.

Proverbs 8:27
I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

Proverbs 8:28
when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,


Treasury of Scripture

The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens.

Lord

Proverbs 8:27-29
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: …

Psalm 104:24
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

Psalm 136:5
To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.

established or prepared

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Proverbs 3
1. various exhortations
13. The gain of wisdom
27. Exhortation to goodness
33. the different state of the wicked and upright














(e) Fifth Discourse:--Wisdom as Creator and Protector (Proverbs 3:19-26).

(19) The Lord by wisdom . . .--A passage anticipatory of the doctrine of John 1:3. (Comp. Psalm 104:24; Psalm 136:5.) A further advance towards the personality of the Creator is made in Proverbs 8:27, sqq. . . .

Verses 19-26. - 5. Fifth hortatory discourse. Wisdom, the creative power of God, exhibited as the protection of those who fear God. The teacher in this discourse presents Wisdom under a new aspect. Wisdom is the Divine power of God, by which he created the world, and by which he sustains the work of his hands and regulates the operations of nature. This eminence of Wisdom, in her intimate association with Jehovah, is made the basis of a renewed exhortation to keep Wisdom steadily in view. The elevated thought that Wisdom has her source in Jehovah might seem in itself an adequate and sufficient reason for the exhortation. But another motive is adduced intimately bound up with this view of Wisdom. Jehovah becomes the ground of confidence and the protection in all conditions of life of those who keep Wisdom. Verse 19. - The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth. The emphatic position of the word Jehovah, "the Lord," at the beginning of the sentence (cf. Psalm 27; Psalm 97; Psalm 99), as well as the nature of the discourse, indicates a new paragraph. The description of the creative Wisdom of Jehovah may have been suggested to the mind of the teacher by the mention of the tree of life, in ver. 18 (Zockler); but the connection between this and the preceding passage has to be sought for in something deeper. The scope of the teacher is to exhibit, and so to recommend, Wisdom in every respect, and after showing her excellence in man, he now brings her forward as the medium of creation, and hence in her relation to God. By wisdom (b'kokhmah); Vulgate, sapientia; LXX., σοφίᾳ. It is evident that Wisdom is here something more than an attribute of Jehovah. "By Wisdom" means "by, or through, the instrumentality of Wisdom." While the corresponding and parallel expressions, "understanding," "knowledge," militate against the idea of an hypostatizing of Wisdom, i.e. assigning to Wisdom a concrete and objective personality, yet the language is sufficiently strong, when we connect this passage with ch. 1. and 8, to warrant our regarding Wisdom as something apart from yet intimately connected with Jehovah, as an active agency employed by him, and hence this description may. be looked upon as an anticipation of that which is more fully developed in ch. 8, where the characteristics which are wanting here are there worked out at length. The rabbins evidently connected the passage before us, as well as ch. 1 and 8, with Genesis 1:1, by rendering b'reshith, "in the beginning." by b'kokhmah, "by Wisdom." Our Lord identifies himself with the Divine Sophia, or Wisdom (Luke 11:49). And the language of St. John, "All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made" (John 1:3), which assigns to the Logos, or Word of God, i.e. Christ, the act of creation (cf. John 1:10, and especially the language of St. Paul, in Colossians 1:16), argues in favour of the view of some commentators who understand Wisdom to refer to the Second Person of the Trinity. The Logos was understood by Alexandrian Judaism to express the manifestation of the unseen God, the Absolute Being, in the creation and government of the world; and the Christian teachers, when they adopted this term, assigned to it a concrete meaning as indicating the Incarnate Word (see Bishop Lightfoot, in Colossians 1:15). For the passage, see Psalm 33:6; Psalm 104:24; Psalm 136:5; and especially Jeremiah 10:12, "He hath established the world by his wisdom," etc.; Jeremiah 51:55; Ecclus. 24:2, seq. Hath founded (yasod); Vulgate, fundavit; LXX., ἐθεμελίωσε. The same verb is used in Job 38:4; Psalm 24:2; Psalm 78:69, of the creation of the earth by God. While the primary meaning of yasad is "to give fixity to," "to lay fast," that of konen, rendered "he hath established," is "to set up," "to erect," and so "to found," from kun, or referring to the Arabic and Ethiopic cognate root, "to exist," "to give existence to." The marginal reading, "prepared," corresponds with the LXX. ἐτοίμασε. The Vulgate is stabilivit, "he hath established."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The LORD
יְֽהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

founded
יָֽסַד־ (yā·saḏ-)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3245: To set, to found, to sit down together, settle, consult

the earth
אָ֑רֶץ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

by wisdom
בְּחָכְמָ֥ה (bə·ḥā·ḵə·māh)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2451: Wisdom

and established
כּוֹנֵ֥ן (kō·w·nên)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3559: To be erect

the heavens
שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

by understanding.
בִּתְבוּנָֽה׃ (biṯ·ḇū·nāh)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8394: Intelligence, an argument, caprice


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