Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, 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,

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].

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 The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past. 23 From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was. 24 When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.


Cross References

Psalm 2:6

But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.

Genesis 1:26

And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

Micah 5:2

And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

John 17:5

And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.

John 17:24

Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

Ephesians 1:10-11

The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,

1 John 1:1-2

That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life

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