Proverbs 8:24

"I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed."

Key Reflection

This verse emphasizes that wisdom is eternal and existed alongside God from the very beginning, long before the creation of the physical earth. It underscores a timeless relationship between wisdom and God, highlighting the divine nature of wisdom as something foundational and uncreated.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

CompareGenesis 1:0;Job 22:0;Job 26:1-14;Job 38:0: A world of waters, “great deeps” lying in darkness, this was the picture of the remotest time of which man could form any conception, and yet the co-existence of the uncreated Wisdom with the eternal Yahweh was before that.

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