Proverbs 8:23

In 11 translations

BSB

From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

KJV

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

WEB

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

ASV

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

LSV

I was anointed from the age, from the first, || From former states of the earth.

YLT

From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.

DBY

I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.

DRC

I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made.

GNV

I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.

JPS

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

LXXE

He established me before time was in the beginning, before he made the earth:Gr. before the age.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

מֵ֭עוֹלָם נִסַּ֥כְתִּי מֵרֹ֗אשׁ מִקַּדְמֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

LXX-Br

πρὸ τοῦ αἰῶνος ἐθεμελίωσέ με, ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸ τοῦ τὴν γῆν ποιῆσαι,

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• John 17:24Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
• Micah 5:2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel — One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
• Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
• John 17:5And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
• Psalms 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
• 1 John 1:1–2That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life. And this is the life that was revealed; we…
• Ephesians 1:10–11as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ. In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything…

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