Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth

New American Standard Bible

Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills I was brought forth;

King James Version

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

Holman Bible

I was delivered
before the mountains and hills were established,

International Standard Version

Before the mountains were shaped, before there were hills, I was bringing them to birth.

American Standard Version

Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;

Amplified


“Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills, I was born;

Bible in Basic English

Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

Darby Translation

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;

Julia Smith Translation

Before the mountains were settled; before the hills I had a beginning:

King James 2000

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth.

Modern King James verseion

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Before the foundations of the mountains were laid, yea before all hills was I born.

NET Bible

before the mountains were set in place -- before the hills -- I was born,

New Heart English Bible

Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was brought forth;

The Emphasized Bible

Ere yet the mountains had been settled, before the hills, had I been brought forth;

Webster

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth.

World English Bible

Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was brought forth;

Youngs Literal Translation

Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
הר 
Har 
Usage: 544

טבע 
Taba` 
Usage: 10

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

the hills
גּבעה 
Gib`ah 
Usage: 69

References

Context Readings

Wisdom At Creation

24 when there were no depths. I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water, 25 before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth 26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

Cross References

Psalm 90:2

Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.

Job 15:7-8

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

Job 38:4-11

Where were thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou have understanding.

Psalm 102:25-28

Of old thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

Hebrews 1:10

And thou, Lord, at the beginnings founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

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