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John Trapp on Proverbs 3:20

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Proverbs3:20

Verſ. 20. The depths are broken up] viz. Thoſe great chanels and hollow places made in the earth, to hold the waters, Gen. 1.9. that they may not overflow the earth; and this the very Philoſophers are forced to confeſs to bee a work of divine wiſdome. Others by depths here underſtand fountains and floods breaking out, and as it were flowing from the nethermoſt parts of the earth, even as though the earth did cleave it ſelf in ſunder, to give them paſſage.

And the clouds drop down the dews] Clouds (the bottles of rain and dew) are veſſels as thin as the liquor that is contained in them; there they hang, move, though weighty with their burden. How they are upheld, and why they fall here, and now, wee know not, and wonder.

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