Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Were you the first man to be born,
Or were you brought forth before the hills?

King James Version

Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

Holman Bible

Were you the first person ever born,
or were you brought forth before the hills?

International Standard Version

"Were you the first personto be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made?

A Conservative Version

Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills?

American Standard Version

Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

Amplified


“Were you the first man to be born [the original wise man],
Or were you created before the hills?

Bible in Basic English

Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

Darby Translation

Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?

Julia Smith Translation

Shalt thou be the firm man born? and hadst thou a beginning before the hills?

King James 2000

Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Were you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth {before} [the] hills?

Modern King James verseion

Were you the first man born? Or were you made before the hills?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Art thou the first man that ever was born? Or, wast thou made before the hills?

NET Bible

"Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

New Heart English Bible

"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

The Emphasized Bible

The first of mankind, wast thou born? Or, before the hills, wast thou brought forth?

Webster

Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

World English Bible

"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

Youngs Literal Translation

The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Art thou the first
ראשׁן ראשׁון 
Ri'shown 
Usage: 182

man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

or wast thou made
חיל חוּל 
Chuwl 
Usage: 57

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

References

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

6 Your own mouth condemns you, not mine! Your own lips testify against you. 7 “Were you the first man to be born,
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
8 Have you heard God's council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Cross References

Psalm 90:2

Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and its inhabitants, you are God from everlasting to everlasting.

Genesis 4:1

Adam had sexual intercourse with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said: With the help of Jehovah I have brought forth a man.

Job 12:12

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?

Job 15:10

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

Job 38:4-41

Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.

Proverbs 8:22-25

Jehovah created me in the beginning of his way, before his works of antiquity.

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