Proverbs 8:23
I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
In Context
22The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.
Cross References
Genesis 1:26And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. Let us make man to our image... This image of God in man, is not in the body, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued with understanding and free will. God speaketh here in the plural number, to insinuate the plurality of persons in the Deity.
Micah 5:1Now shalt thou be laid waste, O daughter of the robber: they have laid siege against us, with a rod shall they strike the cheek of the judge of Israel. Daughter of the robber... Some understand this of Babylon; which robbed and pillaged the temple of God: others understand it of Jerusalem; by reason of the many rapines and oppressions committed there.
John 17:5And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.
Ephesians 1:10In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.
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 →