Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was,
New American Standard Bible
From the beginning,
King James Version
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
Holman Bible
from the beginning, before the earth began.
International Standard Version
From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before there was land.
American Standard Version
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.
Amplified
“From everlasting I was established and ordained,
From the beginning, before the earth existed, [I, godly wisdom, existed].
Bible in Basic English
From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.
Darby Translation
I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.
Julia Smith Translation
From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth.
King James 2000
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was.
Lexham Expanded Bible
From eternity, I was set up from [the] first, from the beginning of the earth.
Modern King James verseion
I was anointed from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth ever was.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I have been ordained from everlasting, and from the beginning before the earth was made.
NET Bible
From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before the world existed.
New Heart English Bible
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
The Emphasized Bible
At the outset of the ages, had I been established, in advance of the antiquities of the earth;
Webster
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
World English Bible
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
Youngs Literal Translation
From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.
Interlinear
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Ro'sh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 8:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wisdom At Creation
22 LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was, 24 when there were no depths. I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water,
Cross References
Psalm 2:6
Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image--after our likeness--and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
Micah 5:2
But thou, Bethlehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee he shall come forth to me who is to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
John 17:5
And now, Father, glorify thou me with thyself with the glory that I had with thee before the world was.
John 17:24
Father, whom thou gave to me, I desire that where I am, they also may be with me, so that they may see my glory that thou have given me, because thou loved me before the foundation of the world.
Ephesians 1:10-11
for an administration of the fullness of the times. To gather together all things in the Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth,
1 John 1:1-2
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life