💡WEB · Proverbs 8:26
What does Proverbs 8:26 mean?
"while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world."
— Proverbs 8:26 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;
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