Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version before he made the world or its fields or any of the dust of the earth. New Living Translation before he had made the earth and fields and the first handfuls of soil. English Standard Version before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. Berean Standard Bible before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth. King James Bible While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. New King James Version While as yet He had not made the earth or the fields, Or the primal dust of the world. New American Standard Bible While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world. NASB 1995 While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world. NASB 1977 While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world. Legacy Standard Bible While He had not yet made the earth and the fields outside, Nor the first dust of the world. Amplified Bible While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Or the first of the dust of the earth. Christian Standard Bible before he made the land, the fields, or the first soil on earth. Holman Christian Standard Bible before He made the land, the fields, or the first soil on earth. American Standard Version While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Before he would make the Earth and the floods and the beginning of the dust of the world Brenton Septuagint Translation The Lord made countries and uninhabited tracks, and the highest inhabited parts of the world. Contemporary English Version It happened long before God had made the earth or any of its fields or even the dust. Douay-Rheims Bible He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. English Revised Version While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. GOD'S WORD® Translation when he had not yet made land or fields or the first dust of the world. Good News Translation before God made the earth and its fields or even the first handful of soil. International Standard Version Even though he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the world's first grains of dust, JPS Tanakh 1917 While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world. Literal Standard Version While He had not made the earth, and out-places, | And the top of the dusts of the world. Majority Standard Bible before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth. New American Bible When the earth and the fields were not yet made, nor the first clods of the world. NET Bible before he made the earth and its fields, or the beginning of the dust of the world. New Revised Standard Version when he had not yet made earth and fields, or the world’s first bits of soil. New Heart English Bible while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. Webster's Bible Translation While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. World English Bible while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. Young's Literal Translation While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Excellence of Wisdom…25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth, 26before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth. 27I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,… Cross References Proverbs 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth, Proverbs 8:27 I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep, Treasury of Scripture While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. as yet Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Jump to Previous Beginning Dust Earth Fields First Highest Out-Places Part Top WorldJump to Next Beginning Dust Earth Fields First Highest Out-Places Part Top WorldProverbs 8 1. the fame6. and evidence of wisdom 10. The excellence 12. the nature 15. the power 18. the riches 22. and the eternity of wisdom 32. Wisdom is to be desired for the blessedness it brings (26) The earth.--i.e., the cultivated and enclosed part of it. The fields.--The open country. The highest part of the dust of the world. Literally, "the head of the dusts of the fertile earth" i.e. the heaps of the clods of arable land, or better perhaps, "the sum of the atoms of dust." Some refer to Genesis 2:7, and interpret the words of man, as formed out of the dust. Verse 26. - Before the mountains were settled (Job 38:6). It is questioned where the mountains were supposed to be fixed, and some have thought that they are represented as fixed in the depths of the earth. But, as we learn from Genesis 1:9, they are regarded as rising from the waters, their foundations are laid in the great deep. So the psalmist, speaking of the waters, says, "They went up by the mountains, they went down by the valleys, unto the place which thou hast founded for them" (Psalm 104:8; comp. Psalm 24:2). What is here affirmed of Wisdom is said of Jehovah in Psalm 90:2, "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God." Verse 26. - The earth, nor the fields. The distinction intended is land as cultivated and occupied by buildings, etc., and waste uncultivated land outside towns. Septuagint, "The Lord made countries and uninhabited places (ἀοικήτους);" Vulgate, Adhuc terram non fecerat, et flumina. Hebrew, chutsoth; things without, abroad, hence open country. The Vulgate rendering, and that of Aquila and Symmaehus, ἐξόδους, are plainly erroneous, as waters have already been mentioned (ver. 24). The highest part of the dust of the world; literally, the head of the dusts of the world. Some have interpreted this expression of "man," the chief of those creatures which are made of the dust of the ground (Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 3:20). But the idea comes in awkwardly here; it is not natural to introduce man amid the inanimate works of nature, or to use such an enigmatical designation for him. St. Jerome has, cardines orbis terrarum, "the world's hinges;" Septuagint, "the inhabited summits of the earth beneath the heavens; according to St. Hilary ('De Trinit.,' 12), "cacumina quae habitantur sub coelo." Others take the term to signify the capes or promontories ot the world, the peaks and elevations; others, the clods of dry, amble land, in contrast to the untilled waste of waters; others, the chief elements, the matter of which the earth is composed. This last interpretation would lead us back to a period which has already been passed. Amid the many possible explanations, it is perhaps best (with Delitzsch, Nowack, etc.) to take rosh, "head" as equivalent to "sum," "mass," as in Psalm 139:17. "How great is the sum (rosh) of them!" Then the expression comprehensively means all the mass of earth's dust.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew beforeעַד־ (‘aḏ-) Preposition Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while He made עָ֭שָׂה (‘ā·śāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6213: To do, make the land אֶ֣רֶץ (’e·reṣ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land or fields, וְחוּצ֑וֹת (wə·ḥū·ṣō·wṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors or any וְ֝רֹ֗אשׁ (wə·rōš) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7218: The head of the dust עָפְר֥וֹת (‘ā·p̄ə·rō·wṯ) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud of the earth. תֵּבֵֽל׃ (tê·ḇêl) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8398: The earth, the globe, its inhabitants, a particular land Links Proverbs 8:26 NIVProverbs 8:26 NLT Proverbs 8:26 ESV Proverbs 8:26 NASB Proverbs 8:26 KJV Proverbs 8:26 BibleApps.com Proverbs 8:26 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 8:26 Chinese Bible Proverbs 8:26 French Bible Proverbs 8:26 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 8:26 While as yet he had not made (Prov. 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