Proverbs Chapter 8 verse 24 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 8:24

When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
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BBE Proverbs 8:24

When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.
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DARBY Proverbs 8:24

When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
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KJV Proverbs 8:24

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
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WEB Proverbs 8:24

When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.
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YLT Proverbs 8:24

In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy `with' waters,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - The preexistence of Wisdom is still more expressly set forth. When there were no depths (vers. 27, 28). The waste of waters which covered the face of the earth is meant - that great deep on which primeval darkness brooded (Genesis 1:2). Before even this, man's earliest conception of the beginning of the world, uncreated Wisdom was. Septuagint, "before he made the abysses" (see on Proverbs 3:20). I was brought forth; Vulgate, et ego jam concepta eram; Septuagint, at the end of ver. 25, γεννᾷ με, "he begetteth me." The verb here is חוּל (chul), which is used of the travailing of women, and is rightly translated, "brought forth by generation." It indicates in this place the energizing of Wisdom, her conception in the Divine mind, and her putting tbrth in operation. When there were no fountains abounding with water; i.e. springs in the interior of the earth (Genesis 7:11; comp. Job 22, 26, 38.). Septuagint,"Before the springs of the waters came forward (προελθεῖν)."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) I was brought forth.--i.e., born. The same word is used in Psalm 51:5 (7), and Job 15:7.