Proverbs 8:25
Before the mountains were settled, 1 And before all hills, he begets me. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
In Context
24even before he made the depths; 1 Before the fountains of water came forth: 1
26The Lord made countries and uninhabited tracts, 1 And the highest inhabited parts of the world. 1
Cross References
Job 15:7What! art thou the first man that was born? 1 Or wert thou established before the hills? 1
Psalms 90:2He shall say to the Lord, Thou art my helper and my refuge: 1 My God; I will hope in him. 1
Psalms 104:8He has remembered his covenant forever, 1 The word which he commanded for a thousand generations: 1
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 →