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Proverbs 8:24
24I was born before there were oceans, before there were springs filled with water.
Proverbs 8:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
- New International Version (NIV)When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
- English Standard Version (ESV)When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
- New King James Version (NKJV)When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
Context of Proverbs 8:24
22“The Lord already possessed me long ago, when his way began, before any of his works. 23I was appointed from everlasting from the first, before the earth began. I was born before there were oceans, before there were springs filled with water. 25I was born before the mountains were settled in their places and before the hills, 26when he had not yet made land or fields or the first dust of the world.
Read all of Proverbs 8Proverbs 8:24 word by word
בְּאֵין־תְּהֹמ֥וֹת חוֹלָ֑לְתִּי בְּאֵ֥ין מַ֝עְיָנ֗וֹת נִכְבַּדֵּי־מָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 8:24
- Psalms 2:7I will announce the Lord’s decree. He said to me: “You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.
- John 1:14The Word became human and lived among us. We saw his glory. It was the glory that the Father shares with his only Son, a glory full of kindness and truth.
- John 3:16God loved the world this way: He gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life.
- John 5:20The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing. The Father will show him even greater things to do than these things so that you will be amazed.
- Hebrews 1:5God never said to any of his angels, “You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.” And God never said to any of his angels, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son.”
- 1 John 4:9God has shown us his love by sending his only Son into the world so that we could have life through him.
Commentaries on Proverbs 8:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24When there were no depths - תהמות tehomoth, before the original chaotic mass was formed. See Genesis 1:2. I was brought forth - חוללתי cholalti, "I was produced as by laboring throes." Mr. Parkhurst thinks that the heathen poets derived their idea of Minerva's (wisdom's) being born of Jupiter's brain, from some such high poetic personification as that in the text.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24Compare Job 26:1-14; 38: A world of waters, “great deeps” lying in darkness, this was the picture of the remotest time of which man could form any conception, and yet the co-existence of the uncreated Wisdom with the eternal Yahweh was before that.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 22-31Verses 22-31 The Son of God declares himself to have been engaged in the creation of the world. How able, how fit is the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world, who was the Creator of it! The Son of God was ordained, before the world, to that great work. Does he delight in saving wretched sinners, and shall not we delight in his salvation?Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22-25created me as His first course, before His works of old...From everlasting I was established: God's wisdom has always been. Here, wisdom is shown as a person, but it is not an actual person. Wisdom is part of God's character and nature. Unlike pagan gods, God does not need an outside advisor (see Isaiah 40:13–14). Jesus is the highest point of God's wisdom (see Colossians 1:15–17; 2:3).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22-3122-31. Strictly, God's attributes are part of Himself. Yet, to the poetical structure of the whole passage, this commendation of wisdom is entirely consonant. In order of time all His attributes are coincident and eternal as Himself. But to set forth the importance of wisdom as devising the products of benevolence and power, it is here assigned a precedence. As it has such in divine, so should it be desired in human, affairs (compare Pr 3:19)…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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