Proverbs 8:24
New International Version
When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

New Living Translation
I was born before the oceans were created, before the springs bubbled forth their waters.

English Standard Version
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

Berean Standard Bible
When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.

King James Bible
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

New King James Version
When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.

New American Standard Bible
“When there were no ocean depths, I was born, When there were no springs abounding with water.

NASB 1995
“When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.

NASB 1977
“When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.

Legacy Standard Bible
When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs heavy with water.

Amplified Bible
“When there were no ocean depths I was born, When there were no fountains and springs overflowing with water.

Christian Standard Bible
I was born when there were no watery depths and no springs filled with water.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I was born when there were no watery depths and no springs filled with water.

American Standard Version
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Before the depths would be, I was born, and before there would be waters in the springs.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth:

Contemporary English Version
When I was born, there were no oceans or springs of water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out:

English Revised Version
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I was born before there were oceans, before there were springs filled with water.

Good News Translation
I was born before the oceans, when there were no springs of water.

International Standard Version
When there were no ocean depths, I brought them to birth at a time when there were no springs.

JPS Tanakh 1917
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; When there were no fountains abounding with water.

Literal Standard Version
In there being no depths, I was brought forth, | In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters,

Majority Standard Bible
When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.

New American Bible
When there were no deeps I was brought forth, when there were no fountains or springs of water;

NET Bible
When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

New Revised Standard Version
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

New Heart English Bible
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

Webster's Bible Translation
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

World English Bible
When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.

Young's Literal Translation
In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy with waters,

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Context
The Excellence of Wisdom
23From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began. 24When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water. 25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,…

Cross References
Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Exodus 15:5
The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.

Job 38:16
Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

Proverbs 3:20
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.


Treasury of Scripture

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

*I was

Psalm 2:7
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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(24) I was brought forth.--i.e., born. The same word is used in Psalm 51:5 (7), and Job 15:7.

Verse 24. - The preexistence of Wisdom is still more expressly set forth. When there were no depths (vers. 27, 28). The waste of waters which covered the face of the earth is meant - that great deep on which primeval darkness brooded (Genesis 1:2). Before even this, man's earliest conception of the beginning of the world, uncreated Wisdom was. Septuagint, "before he made the abysses" (see on Proverbs 3:20). I was brought forth; Vulgate, et ego jam concepta eram; Septuagint, at the end of ver. 25, γεννᾷ με, "he begetteth me." The verb here is חוּל (chul), which is used of the travailing of women, and is rightly translated, "brought forth by generation." It indicates in this place the energizing of Wisdom, her conception in the Divine mind, and her putting tbrth in operation. When there were no fountains abounding with water; i.e. springs in the interior of the earth (Genesis 7:11; comp. Job 22, 26, 38.). Septuagint,"Before the springs of the waters came forward (προελθεῖν)."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When there were no
בְּאֵין־ (bə·’ên-)
Preposition-b | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

watery depths,
תְּהֹמ֥וֹת (tə·hō·mō·wṯ)
Noun - common plural
Strong's 8415: An abyss, the deep

I was brought forth,
חוֹלָ֑לְתִּי (ḥō·w·lā·lə·tî)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 2342: To twist, whirl, to dance, to writhe in pain, fear, to wait, to pervert

when no
בְּאֵ֥ין (bə·’ên)
Preposition-b | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

springs
מַ֝עְיָנ֗וֹת (ma‘·yā·nō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4599: A fountain, a source

were overflowing
נִכְבַּדֵּי־ (niḵ·bad·dê-)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3513: To be heavy, weighty, or burdensome

with water.
מָֽיִם׃ (mā·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen


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