Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

New American Standard Bible

“From everlasting I was established,
From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

I was formed before ancient times,
from the beginning, before the earth began.

International Standard Version

From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before there was land.

A Conservative 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I was set up
נסך 
Nacak 
Usage: 25

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

or ever
קדמה קדם 
Qedem 
Usage: 87

the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

References

American

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Wisdom At Creation

22 Jehovah 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 creepeth upon the earth.

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.

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.

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 1:10-11

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,

1 John 1:1-2

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

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