Proverbs 8:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ I [Wisdom] was inaugurated and ordained from everlasting, from the beginning, before ever the earth existed. [John 1:1; I Cor. 1:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.

Common English Bible

²³ I was formed in ancient times, at the beginning, before the earth was.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ I was ordained from eternity, and out of antiquity, before the earth was formed.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made.

Proverbs 8:23 Cross References

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

Psalm 2:6

“I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.”

Proverbs 4:7

The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight.

Micah 5:1

Now you are walled around with a wall; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the ruler of Israel upon the cheek.

Micah 5:2

But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.

John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 17:24

Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

John 17:5

So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.