50 Heb “his mouth.”
51 The verb form is a preterite with vav consecutive, although it has not been apocopated. It provides the concluding statement for the temporal clauses as well as the parallel to v. 27.
52 Critical to the interpretation of this line is the meaning of אָמוֹן (’amon). Several suggestions have been made: “master craftsman” (cf. , , , ), “nursing child” (cf. ), “foster father.” R. B. Y. Scott chooses “faithful”—a binding or living link (“Wisdom in Creation: The ‘Amon of Proverbs 8:30,” 10 [1960]: 213–23). The image of a child is consistent with the previous figure of being “given birth to” (vv. 24, 25). However, “craftsman” has the most support (, , , , ; ; also P. W. Skehan, “Structures in Poems on Wisdom: Proverbs 8 and Sirach 24,” 41 [1979]: 365–79).
53 The word is a plural of intensification for “delight”; it describes wisdom as the object of delight. The has the suffix; the Hebrew does not.
54 The two words are synonymous in general and so could be taken to express a superlative idea—the “whole world” (cf. , ). But תֵּבֵל (tevel) also means the inhabited world, and so the construct may be interpreted as a partitive genitive.
55 Heb “and my delights” [were] with/in.”
56 Heb “the sons of man.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

when he assigned to the sea its limit,

so that the waters might not transgress his command,

when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

then I was beside him, like a master workman,

and I was daily his delight,

rejoicing before him always,

rejoicing in his inhabited world

and delighting in the children of man.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

when he gave the sea its boundary

so the waters would not overstep his command,

and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.

Then I was constantly at his side.

I was filled with delight day after day,

rejoicing always in his presence,

rejoicing in his whole world

and delighting in mankind.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

when he set a limit for the sea

so that the waters would not violate his command,

when he laid out the foundations of the earth.

I was a skilled craftsman beside him.

I was his delight every day,

always rejoicing before him.

I was rejoicing in his inhabited world,

delighting in the children of Adam.

NLTNew Living Translation

I was there when he set the limits of the seas,

so they would not spread beyond their boundaries.

And when he marked off the earth’s foundations,

I was the architect at his side.

I was his constant delight,

rejoicing always in his presence.

And how happy I was with the world he created;

how I rejoiced with the human family!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

when he assigned his limits to the sea,

that waters shall not transgress his command,

when he marked the foundations of the earth,

I was beside him, a master workman,

and I was delighting day by day,

rejoicing before him always,

rejoicing in the world of his earth,

and my delight was with the children of humankind.

KJV 1900King James Version

When he gave to the sea his decree,

That the waters should not pass his commandment:

When he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Then I was by him, as one brought up with him:

And I was daily his delight,

Rejoicing always before him;

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth;

And my delights were with the sons of men.

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