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Proverbs 8:24
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I was bornwhen there were no watery depthsand no springs filled with water.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
"When there were no ocean depths, I was born, When there were no springs abounding with water.
I was born before there were oceans, or springs overflowing with water,
When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
"When there were no ocean depths I was born, When there were no fountains and springs overflowing with water.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.
When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,When there were no springs heavy with water.
When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.
When I was brought forth, there were no ocean depths, no springs brimming with water.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
I was born before there was an ocean, before the springs began to flow.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
I was born before the oceans, when there were no springs of water.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs of abounding water.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no springs heavy with water.
When I was borne, there were nether depthes ner springes of water.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
When there were no depthes, I was brought forth: when there were no fountaines abounding with water.
When I was borne there were neither depthes nor springes of water.
even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth:
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Depthis of watris weren not yit; and Y was conseyued thanne. The wellis of watris hadden not brokun out yit,
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth; when [there were] no fountains abounding with water.
When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
I was born before the oceans were created, before the springs bubbled forth their waters.
I was born when there were no seas, when there were no pools full of water.
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
When there was no resounding deep, I had been brought forth, when there were no fountains, abounding with water;
The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters,
"When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I was: Psalms 2:7, John 1:14, John 3:16, John 5:20, Hebrews 1:5, 1 John 4:9
Reciprocal: Job 38:16 - the springs Hebrews 1:6 - And again
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth,.... Not only in the decree of God, as the head of the elect; foreordained to be the Redeemer of them, and to be the propitiation for their sins; and appointed the Judge of the world, and heir of all things; but "was begotten", as the Targum and Syriac version; the Septuagint is, "he begot me"; and so it is to be understood of the eternal generation and sonship of Christ; for the word חוללתי is used of generation,
Job 15:7. Christ is the firstborn of every creature, begotten, born, and brought forth before any creature was in being; see Psalms 2:7; before the depths of the great sea were formed, for they were made by him, Psalms 95:1; when there were no depths, but the infinite being and perfections of God, and the thoughts and purposes of his heart, which are his deep things, Job 11:7;
when [there were] no fountains abounding with water; or "heavy", or "honoured" k with it; when the fountains of the great deep were not; and when there were no other fountains which form rivers, and water the earth; when there were none but God the fountain of living waters; then was Christ as the only begotten son of God; and who was also set up as the fountain of all grace, life, and salvation for his people.
k נכבדי "aggravati", Pagninus; "praegravati", Vatablus; "gravati", Michaelis; "honorabiles", Gejerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Compare Genesis 1:0; Job 22:0; Job 26:1-14; Job 38:0: A world of waters, “great deeps” lying in darkness, this was the picture of the remotest time of which man could form any conception, and yet the co-existence of the uncreated Wisdom with the eternal Yahweh was before that.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 8:24. When there were no depths — תהמות tehomoth, before the original chaotic mass was formed. See Genesis 1:2.
I was brought forth — חוללתי cholalti, "I was produced as by labouring throes." Mr. Parkhurst thinks that the heathen poets derived their idea of Minerva's (wisdom's) being born of Jupiter's brain, from some such high poetic personification as that in the text.
