Proverbs 8:23
From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
In Context
22The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.
24When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.
Cross References
Genesis 1:26And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
Micah 5:1\5:2\And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.
John 17:5And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.
Ephesians 1:10The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:23-32
Wisdom Eternal and Divine. 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when… Read the whole commentary →