Proverbs 8:25 (BSB)

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:25

• 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 8:25: Before the mountains were settled,.... "Plunged" (l), or fixed in the earth; and which was done by the great strength of the Lord, upon their proper bases, Psa 65:6; and which were "aborigine", or from the beginning of the world, and therefore called the ancient mountains, Deu 33:15; to be before the mountains is a periphrasis of eternity, and is a phrase expressive of God's...
• 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...