Proverbs 8:23
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New International Version (©1984)
I was appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I was appointed in ages past, at the very first, before the earth began.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I was appointed from everlasting from the first, before the earth began.

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

American King James Version
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

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

Bible in Basic English
From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made.

Darby Bible Translation
I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.

Geneva Study Bible

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

(l) He declares the eternity of the Son of God, who was before all time, and ever present with the father.

Wesley's Notes

8:23 Set up - Heb. anointed, constituted to be the person by whom the Father resolved to do all his works, to create, to uphold and govern and judge, to redeem and save the world. From the beginning - Before which, there was nothing but a vast eternity. The earth - Which together with the heaven, was the first of God's visible works.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23. I was set up-ordained, or inaugurated (Ps 2:6). The other terms carry out the idea of the earliest antiquity, and illustrate it by the details of creation [Pr 8:24-29].

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:22-31 The Son of God declares himself to have been engaged in the creation of the world. How able, how fit is the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world, who was the Creator of it! The Son of God was ordained, before the world, to that great work. Does he delight in saving wretched sinners, and shall not we delight in his salvation?


John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 17:5 "Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. (NASB ©1995)

Age Ages Ago Anointed Appointed Beginning Birth Earliest Earth Established Eternal Eternity Everlasting Existed First Former States Time Times World


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

Ge 1:26 Ps 2:6 Mic 5:2 Joh 17:24 Eph 1:10,11 1Jo 1:1,2

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