Proverbs 8:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²² The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² The Lord formed and brought me [Wisdom] forth at the beginning of His way, before His acts of old.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.

Common English Bible

²² The LORD created me at the beginning of his way, before his deeds long in the past.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made anything, from the beginning.

Proverbs 8:22 Cross References

Colossians 1:17

and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

Proverbs 3:19

The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding he established the heavens.

Psalm 104:24

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.

Revelation 3:14

And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God:

Job 28:23

God understandeth the way thereof, And he knoweth the place thereof.

Micah 5:2

But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.