Parallel Verses

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].

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 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 “From everlasting I was established,
From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
24 I was begotten before the depths, before the existence of the fountains of many waters.


Cross References

Psalm 2:6

Yet I have set my king upon Zion, the mountain of my holiness.

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 fowl of the air and over the beasts and over all the earth and over every serpent that moves upon the earth.

Micah 5:2

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be Lord in Israel; and his goings forth are from the beginning, from the days of the ages.

John 17:5

And now, O Father, clarify thou me with thine own self with that clarity which I had with thee before the world was.

John 17:24

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my clarity, which thou hast given me, for thou hast loved me from before the foundation of the world.

Ephesians 1:10-11

that in the dispensation of the fulfillment of the times he might restore all things by the Christ, both those which are in heaven and those which are on earth,

1 John 1:1-2

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life

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