Proverbs 8:26 (BSB)

before He made the land or fields, or any of the dust of the earth.

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:26

• 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 8:26: While as yet he had not made the earth,.... That is, the Lord, who possessed Wisdom, or Christ, and by whom he was set up; he as yet had not made the earth, when this was done; this shows that the earth had a beginning, contrary to those philosophers who asserted the eternity of it; that Christ was before that was, for it was made...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 8:26: fields--or, "out places," "deserts," as opposite to (habitable) "world." highest part--or, "sum," all particles together,
• 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...