Proverbs 8:23 (BSB)

From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, before the earth began.

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:23

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 8:22-31: That it is an intelligent and divine person that here speaks seems very plain, and that it is not meant of a mere essential property of the divine nature, for Wisdom here has personal properties and actions; and that intelligent divine person can be no other than the Son of God himself, to whom the principal things here spoken of wisdom are attributed in other...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 8:23: I was set up from everlasting,.... I, a person, and not a quality; a person, and not a nature; the person of Christ as the Son of God, and not the human nature of Christ, which then did not exist; this phrase designs the ordination and constitution of Christ in his office as Mediator.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 8:23: I was set up--ordained, or inaugurated (Psa 2:6). The other terms carry out the idea of the earliest antiquity, and illustrate it by the details of creation [Pro 8:24-29].
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 8:23: I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. (l) He declares the eternity of the Son of God, who was before all time, and ever present with the father.