Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
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Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
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Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
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Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;
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Passages linked to Proverbs 8:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
- Job 15:7-8 “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills? Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- Job 38:4-11 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it? What were its foundations fastened on? Or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb, when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here?’
- Psalms 102:25-28 Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed. But you are the same. Your years will have no end. The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
- Hebrews 1:10 And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the…
Pro 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
Ver. 25. Was I brought forth.] Or, Begotten. Thus wisdom describes her eternity in human words and expressions, for our better apprehension. Which while Arius either knew not, or weighed not, he herehence took occasion to oppose the Deity of our Saviour, and to propagate that damnable error in the Eastern Churches, to the ruin of many souls. This arch-heretic Arius sitting on the stool to ease nature at Constantinople, voided there his entrails. And now Mohammedanism is there as the excrement of Arius.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Settled; or, fixed by their roots in the earth.
Settled; or, fixed by their roots in the earth.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Before the mountains were settled,.... "Plunged" (l), or fixed…
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, Psa 65:6; and which were "aborigine", or from the beginning of the world, and therefore called the ancient mountains, Deu 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, Psa 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.
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(l) "defixi", Montanus; "mergerentur", Tigurine version; "immersi", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Compare Psa 90:2. What the Psalmist said of Yahweh,…
Compare Psa 90:2. What the Psalmist said of Yahweh, the teacher here asserts of Wisdom; she was before the everlasting hills.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain settled--that is, sunk in foundations.
settled--that is, sunk in foundations.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. Settled — Hebrew, sunk, as a foundation; founded.
25. Settled — Hebrew, sunk, as a foundation; founded.
Brought forth — Same word as in preceding verse.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Before the mountains were settled. (Job_38:6) It is questioned…
Before the mountains were settled. (Job_38:6) It is questioned where the mountains were supposed to be fixed, and some have thought that they are represented as fixed in the depths of the earth. But, as we learn from Gen_1:9, they are regarded as rising from the waters, their foundations are laid in the great deep. So the psalmist, speaking of the waters, says, "They went up by the mountains, they went down by the valleys, unto the place which thou hast founded for them". (Psa_104:8; comp. Psa_24:2) What is here affirmed of Wisdom is said of Jehovah in Psa_90:2, "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God."
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