Proverbs 8:22-31 Parallel Bible Translations

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22 Jehovah set me up the beginning of his way, before his works from ancient time. “The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. “The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old;
23 From forever I was knit together, from the beginning, from the first of the earth. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be.
24 In no depths was I begun; in no fountains abundant in waters. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
25 Before the mountains were settled; before the hills I had a beginning: Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth,
26 Yet he made not the earth and the fields, and the head of the clods of the habitable globe. before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. before he made the world or its fields or any of the dust of the earth.
27 In his preparing the heavens I was there: in his inscribing a circle upon the face of the deep: When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,
28 In his making firm the clouds from above: in his strengthening the fountains of the deep: when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,
29 In his setting his law to the sea, and the waters shall not pass by his mouth; in his making firm the foundations of the earth: when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
30 And I shall be near him the builder, and I shall be a delight of day, day, smiling before him in all time. then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, Then I was constantly at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,
31 Smiling in the habitable globe of his earth; and my delight with the sons of man. rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man. rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.
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