Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth
New American Standard Bible
Before the hills I was
King James Version
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Holman Bible
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
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 8:25
Verse Info
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.