Proverbs 8:24

New Living Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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.

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

New American Standard Bible
"When there were no ocean depths, I was born, When there were no springs 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;

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

World English Bible
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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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:

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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 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.

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.

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.

Contextual Overview

²² "The Lord formed me from the beginning, before he created anything else. ²³ I was appointed in ages past, at the very first, before the earth began. ²⁴ I was born before the oceans were created, before the springs bubbled forth their waters. ²⁵ Before the mountains were formed, before the hills, I was born— ²⁶ before he had made the earth and fields and the first handfuls of soil. ²⁷ I was there when he established the heavens, when he drew the horizon on the oceans. ²⁸ I was there when he set the clouds above, when he established springs deep in the earth. ²⁹ I was there when he set the limits of the seas, so they would not spread beyond their boundaries. And when he marked off the earth's foundations, ³⁰ I was the architect at his side. I was his constant delight, rejoicing always in his presence. ³¹ And how happy I was with the world he created; how I rejoiced with the human family!

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.