Proverbs 8:25
Before mountains were sunk, || Before heights, I was brought forth.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
In Context
24In there being no depths, I was brought forth, || In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters,
26While He had not made the earth, and out-places, || And the top of the dusts of the world.
Cross References
Job 15:7Are you the first man born? And were you formed before the heights?
Psalms 90:2Before mountains were brought forth, || And You form the earth and the world, || Even from age to age You [are] God.
Psalms 104:8They go up hills—they go down valleys, || To a place You have founded 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 →