💡WEB · Proverbs 8:23
What does Proverbs 8:23 mean?
"I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed."
— Proverbs 8:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;
that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.
Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
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