Proverbs 8:24 (BSB)

When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:24

  • 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 8:24: When there were no depths, I was brought forth,.... Not only in the decree of God, as the head of the elect; foreordained to be the Redeemer of them, and to be the propitiation for their sins; and appointed the Judge of the world, and heir of all things; but "was begotten", as the Targum and Syriac version; the Septuagint is, "he begot me"; and...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 8:24: brought forth--(Compare Psa 90:2). abounding--or, "laden with water."
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 8:24-26: Pro 8:24-26 This her existence before the world began is now set forth in yet more explicit statements: 24 “When there were as yet no floods was I brought forth, When as yet there were not fountains which abounded with water; 25 For before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth, 26 While as yet He had not made land and...