Proverbs 8:25

The NET Bible®

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

Parallel Translations

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Legacy Standard Bible
Before the mountains were settled,Before the hills I was 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.

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,

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,

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;

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

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:

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:

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.

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

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

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

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

New King James Version
Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was brought forth;

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

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—

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;

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

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

Contextual Overview

²² The Lord created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago. ²³ From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before the world existed. ²⁴ When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water; ²⁵ before the mountains were set in place— before the hills—I was born, ²⁶ before he made the earth and its fields, or the beginning of the dust of the world. ²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep, ²⁸ when he established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep grew strong, ²⁹ when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, ³⁰ then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times, ³¹ rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.

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.