Proverbs 8:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:2 : 2 And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.
  • Ps 2:7 : 7 I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.
  • Prov 3:20 : 20 By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.
  • John 1:14 : 14 And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.
  • John 5:20 : 20 For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.
  • Heb 1:5 : 5 To which of the angels did God say at any time, You are my Son, this day I have given you being? or, I will be his Father, and he will be my Son?
  • 1 John 4:9 : 9 And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 8:25-30
    6 verses
    90%

    25Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

    26When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

    27When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

    28When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

    29When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

    30Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;

  • Prov 8:22-23
    2 verses
    84%

    22The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

    23From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

  • Job 38:4
    73%

    4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

  • Ps 139:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

    16Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

  • Job 38:8-10
    3 verses
    71%

    8Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

    9When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

    10Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

  • Jonah 2:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

    6The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

  • Job 15:7
    71%

    7Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

  • Ps 90:2
    70%

    2Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

  • Ps 22:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

    10I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

  • Job 3:16
    70%

    16Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • Job 38:16
    70%

    16Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
    69%

    24I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • Jer 4:23
    69%

    23Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

  • 2 Sam 22:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

    17He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

  • Ps 18:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

    16He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

  • Eccl 2:6
    68%

    6I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.

  • Job 38:30
    68%

    30The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

  • Ps 69:2
    68%

    2My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

  • Ps 71:6
    68%

    6You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

  • Ps 51:5
    68%

    5Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

  • Isa 37:25
    67%

    25I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • Lam 3:54
    67%

    54Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

  • Job 10:18
    67%

    18Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

  • Jonah 2:3
    67%

    3In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

  • Isa 41:18
    67%

    18I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • Job 28:14
    67%

    14The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

  • Job 29:4-6
    3 verses
    67%

    4As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

    5While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me;

    6When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.

  • Ps 114:8
    67%

    8Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

  • Ps 130:1
    67%

    1<A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.

  • Isa 48:7
    67%

    7They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.

  • Jer 20:18
    67%

    18Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

  • Job 26:5
    67%

    5The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

  • Ps 42:7
    66%

    7Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

  • Gen 1:2
    66%

    2And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

  • Jer 1:5
    66%

    5Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.