Proverbs 8:23
From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
In Context
22Jehovah possessed me — the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.
24In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters,
Cross References
Genesis 1:26And God saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'
Micah 5:1Now gather thyself together, O daughter of troops, A siege he hath laid against us, With a rod they smite on the cheek the judge of Israel.
John 17:5'And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;
Ephesians 1:10in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the 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 →