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25 I was born before the mountains and hills
    were set into place,
26 before the earth and fields were made,
    before the dust of this world was formed.
27 I was there when he set up the skies,
    when he drew a circle in the ocean to make a place for the land.

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25 before the mountains were settled in place,(A)
    before the hills, I was given birth,(B)
26 before he made the world or its fields
    or any of the dust of the earth.(C)
27 I was there when he set the heavens in place,(D)
    when he marked out the horizon(E) on the face of the deep,

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25 (A)Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills, I was brought forth;
26 While as yet He had not made the earth or the [a]fields,
Or the [b]primal dust of the world.
27 When He prepared the heavens, I was there,
When He drew a circle on the face of the deep,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 8:26 outer places
  2. Proverbs 8:26 Lit. beginning of the dust