Proverbs 8:24
In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
In Context
23From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.
25Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.
Cross References
Genesis 1:2the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness [is] on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,
Proverbs 3:20By His knowledge depths have been rent, And clouds do drop dew.
John 3:16for God did so love the world, that His Son — the only begotten — He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
Hebrews 1:5For to which of the messengers said He ever, 'My Son thou art — I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, 'I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'
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 →