Proverbs 8:25

New King James Version

Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was brought forth;

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Before the mountains were formed, before the hills, I was born—

Update Bible Version
Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;

New Century Version
before the hills were there, before the mountains were put in place.

New English Translation
before the mountains were set in place— before the hills—I was born,

Webster's Bible Translation
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth.

World English Bible
Before the mountains were settled in place, Before the hills, I was brought forth;

Amplified Bible
"Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was born;

English Standard Version
Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and hillis stoden not togidere yit bi sad heuynesse; bifor litil hillis Y was born.

English Revised Version
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

Berean Standard Bible
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,

Contemporary English Version
My birth was before mountains were formed or hills were put in place.

American Standard Version
Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;

Bible in Basic English
Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

Complete Jewish Bible
I was brought forth before the hills, before the mountains had settled in place;

Darby Translation
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;

Easy-to-Read Version
I was born before the mountains and hills were set into place,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;

King James Version (1611)
Before the mountaines were setled: before the hilles, was I brought foorth:

New Life Bible
I was born before the mountains and hills were in their places.

New Revised Standard
Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth—

Geneva Bible (1587)
Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.

George Lamsa Translation
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills were formed was I conceived;

Good News Translation
I was born before the mountains, before the hills were set in place,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ere yet the mountains had been settled, before the hills, had I been brought forth;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth:

Revised Standard Version
Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Before the foundations of the mountaines were layde: yea before all hilles, was I borne:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
before the mountains were settled, and before all hills, he begets me.

Christian Standard Bible®
Before the mountains were established,prior to the hills, I was given birth—

Hebrew Names Version
Before the mountains were settled in place, Before the hills, I was brought forth;

King James Version
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

Lexham English Bible
Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth.

Literal Translation
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth;

Young's Literal Translation
Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Before the foundacions of ye mountaynes were layed, yee before all hilles was I borne.

New American Standard Bible
"Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was born;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;

Legacy Standard Bible
Before the mountains were settled,Before the hills I was brought forth;

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

Job 15:7, Job 15:8, Job 38:4-11, Psalms 90:2, Psalms 102:25-28, Hebrews 1:10

Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:35 - regard Jonah 2:6 - the earth Hebrews 1:6 - And again

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Before the mountains were settled,.... "Plunged" l, or fixed in the earth; and which was done by the great strength of the Lord, upon their proper bases, Psalms 65:6; and which were "aborigine", or from the beginning of the world, and therefore called the ancient mountains, Deuteronomy 33:15; to be before the mountains is a periphrasis of eternity, and is a phrase expressive of God's eternity; and being here used of the Son's, shows his eternity is the same with his Father's,

Psalms 90:2;

before the hills was I brought forth; which is repeated partly to show the importance of it; this being a matter of infinite moment and concern, and deserving of the strictest attention and observation; and partly to show the certainty of it; the eternal generation of Christ being an article of faith most surely to be believed.

l הטבעו "defixi", Montanus; "mergerentur", Tigurine version; "immersi", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Psalms 90:2. What the Psalmist said of Yahweh, the teacher here asserts of Wisdom; she was before the everlasting hills.