Proverbs 8:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ When he prepared the heavens, I was there: When he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ When He prepared the heavens, I [Wisdom] was there; when He drew a circle upon the face of the deep and stretched out the firmament over it,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,

Common English Bible

²⁷ I was there when he established the heavens, when he marked out the horizon on the deep sea,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths:

Proverbs 8:27 Cross References

Job 26:10

He has described a circle on the face of the waters, at the boundary between light and darkness.

Psalm 103:19

The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.

Psalm 136:5

who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 33:6

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made and all their host by the breath of his mouth.

Proverbs 3:19

The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;

Proverbs 8:26

when he had not yet made earth and fields or the world’s first bits of soil.

Proverbs 8:28

when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms and carry them in his bosom and gently lead the mother sheep.

Isaiah 40:22

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them like a tent to live in,

Jeremiah 10:12

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Colossians 1:16

for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him.

Hebrews 1:2

but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds.