Proverbs 8:24

New King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

New Century Version
I was born before there were oceans, or springs overflowing with water,

New English Translation
When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing 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 brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Depthis of watris weren not yit; and Y was conseyued thanne. The wellis of watris hadden not brokun out yit,

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

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

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

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

Bible in Basic English
When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

Complete Jewish Bible
When I was brought forth, there were no ocean depths, no springs brimming with water.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
I was born before there was an ocean, before the springs began to flow.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

King James Version (1611)
When there were no depthes, I was brought forth: when there were no fountaines abounding with water.

New Life Bible
I was born when there were no seas, when there were no pools full of water.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.

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

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When there was no resounding deep, I had been brought forth, when there were no fountains, abounding with 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.

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
When I was borne there were neither depthes nor springes of water.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth:

Christian Standard Bible®
I was bornwhen there were no watery depthsand no springs filled with water.

Hebrew Names Version
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.

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

Lexham English Bible
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs of abounding water.

Literal Translation
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no springs heavy with water.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When I was borne, there were nether depthes ner springes of water.

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"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.

Contextual Overview

²² "The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old. ²³ I have been established from everlasting, From the beginning, before there was ever an earth. 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 or the fields, Or the primal dust of the world. ²⁷ When He prepared the heavens, I was there, When He drew a circle on the face of the deep, ²⁸ When He established the clouds above, When He strengthened the fountains of the deep, ²⁹ When He assigned to the sea its limit, So that the waters would not transgress His command, When He marked out the foundations of the earth, ³⁰ Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; [fn] And I was daily His delight,Rejoicing always before Him, ³¹ Rejoicing in His inhabited world, And my delight was with the sons of men.

Bible Verse Review
  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.