25 (A)Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills I was [a]brought forth;
26 While He had not yet made the earth and the [b]fields,
Nor the first dust of the world.
27 “When He (B)established the heavens, I was there,
When (C)He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 8:25 Or born
  2. Proverbs 8:26 Lit outside places

25 before the mountains were settled in place,(A)
    before the hills, I was given birth,(B)
26 before he made the world or its fields
    or any of the dust of the earth.(C)
27 I was there when he set the heavens in place,(D)
    when he marked out the horizon(E) on the face of the deep,

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