Proverbs 8:25

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before the mountains were set in place– before the hills– I was born,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 90:2 : 2 Even before the mountains came into existence, or you brought the world into being, you were the eternal God.
  • Ps 102:25-28 : 25 In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork. 26 They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear. 27 But you remain; your years do not come to an end. 28 The children of your servants will settle down here, and their descendants will live securely in your presence.”
  • Heb 1:10 : 10 And,“You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.
  • Job 15:7-8 : 7 “Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? 8 Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
  • Job 38:4-9 : 4 God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding! 5 Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it? 6 On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone– 7 when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 8 “Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb, 9 when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, 10 when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors, 11 when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?

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  • Prov 8:22-24
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    90%

    22The LORD created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago.

    23From eternity I have been fashioned, from the beginning, from before the world existed.

    24When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

  • Prov 8:26-31
    6 verses
    85%

    26before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world.

    27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

    28when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,

    29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

    30then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,

    31rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.

  • Ps 90:2
    78%

    2Even before the mountains came into existence, or you brought the world into being, you were the eternal God.

  • Job 15:7
    76%

    7“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

  • Job 38:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

    5Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?

    6On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone–

  • Ps 139:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

    16Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

  • Ps 102:25
    72%

    25In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork.

  • Ps 22:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.

    10I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.

  • Heb 1:10
    71%

    10And,“You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

  • Jer 1:5
    71%

    5“Before I formed you in your mother’s womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

  • Jonah 2:6
    70%

    6I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O LORD, my God.

  • Isa 66:7
    70%

    7Before she goes into labor, she gives birth! Before her contractions begin, she delivers a boy!

  • Jer 4:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23“I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.

    24I looked at the mountains and saw that they were shaking. All the hills were swaying back and forth!

  • Ps 51:5
    70%

    5Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

  • Isa 48:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7Now they come into being, not in the past; before today you did not hear about them, so you could not say,‘Yes, I know about them.’

    8You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.

  • 2 Kgs 19:25
    70%

    25Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out. In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

  • Ps 71:6
    69%

    6I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.

  • Job 3:16
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    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

  • John 8:58
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    58Jesus said to them,“I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!”

  • Isa 49:1
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    1Ideal Israel Delivers the Exiles Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The LORD summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.

  • Gen 1:1
    68%

    1¶ The Creation of the World In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

  • Prov 3:19
    68%

    19By wisdom the LORD laid the foundation of the earth; he established the heavens by understanding.

  • Job 38:8
    68%

    8“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

  • Isa 40:21
    68%

    21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

  • Gen 2:4
    68%

    4The Creation of Man and Woman This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created– when the LORD God made the earth and heavens.

  • Isa 37:26
    68%

    26Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

  • Isa 48:5
    68%

    5I announced them to you beforehand; before they happened, I predicted them for you, so you could never say,‘My image did these things, my idol, my cast image, decreed them.’

  • Job 29:5
    67%

    5when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;

  • Ps 104:5
    67%

    5He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be moved.

  • Ps 104:8
    67%

    8as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them.

  • Job 10:8
    67%

    8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

  • Ps 40:2
    67%

    2He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.

  • Ps 139:13
    67%

    13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

  • Job 10:18
    67%

    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

  • Deut 33:15
    67%

    15with the best of the ancient mountains and the harvest produced by the age-old hills;

  • Isa 48:3
    67%

    3“I announced events beforehand, I issued the decrees and made the predictions; suddenly I acted and they came to pass.

  • Isa 2:14
    67%

    14for all the tall mountains, for all the high hills,