Proverbs 8:24 When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

English Standard Version
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

New American Standard Bible
"When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.

King James Bible
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I was born when there were no watery depths and no springs filled with water.

International Standard Version
When there were no ocean depths, I brought them to birth at a time when there were no springs.

American Standard Version
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out:

Darby Bible Translation
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.

Young's Literal Translation
In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy with waters,

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:22-31 The Son of God declares himself to have been engaged in the creation of the world. How able, how fit is the Son of God to be the Saviour of the world, who was the Creator of it! The Son of God was ordained, before the world, to that great work. Does he delight in saving wretched sinners, and shall not we delight in his salvation?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

24. brought forth—(Compare Ps 90:2).

abounding—or, "laden with water."