24. brought forth—(Compare Ps 90:2).

     25. settled—that is, sunk in foundations.

     26. fields—or, "out places," "deserts," as opposite to (habitable) "world."

     27. when he set . . . depth—marked out the circle, according to the popular idea of the earth, as circular, surrounded by depths on which the visible concave heavens rested.

     28. established . . . deep—that is, so as to sustain the waters above and repress those below the firmament (Ge 1:7-11; Job 26:8).

     29. commandment—better, the shore, that is, of the sea.