Proverbs 8:23

Proverbs chapter 8 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.

King James Version · 1611

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

American Standard Version · 1901

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.

v.22Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.

v.23This passage

v.24When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

John 17:24
Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Ephesians 1:10
unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say,
Psalms 2:6
Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion.
John 17:5
And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
Micah 5:2
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life