Proverbs 8:25
Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
In Context
24When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.
26When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.
Cross References
Job 15:7Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.
Psalms 104:8The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.
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 →