Genesis 1:2
And the earth was bwithout form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the cSpirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
b:
Jeremiah 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
c:
Job 26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
The same confused mass or heap is here called both
from its most solid and substantial part; and the
from its vast bulk and depth; and waters, from its outward face and covering. See Psa 104:6 2Pe 3:5.
without order and beauty, and without furniture and use.
the surface or uppermost part of it, upon which the light afterward shone. Thus not the earth only, but also the heaven above it, was without light, as is manifest from the following verses.
not the wind, which was not yet created, as is manifest, because the air, the matter or subject of it, was not yet produced; but the Third Person of the glorious Trinity, called the Holy Ghost, to whom the work of creation is attributed, Job 26:13, as it is ascribed to the Second Person, the Son, Joh 1:3 Col 1:16-17 Heb 1:3, and to the First Person, the Father, every where.
i.e. upon the waters, to cherish, quicken, and dispose them to the production of the things after mentioned. It is a metaphor from birds hovering and fluttering over, and sitting upon their eggs and young ones, to cherish, warm, and quicken them.