Proverbs 8:26
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
American King James Version (AKJV)
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
American Standard Version (ASV)
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.
Webster's Revision
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
World English Bible
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
English Revised Version (ERV)
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
Clarke's Proverbs 8:26 Bible Commentary
The highest part of the dust of the world - ראש עפרות תבל rosh aphroth tebel, "the first particle of matter." The prima materia, the primitive atom. All these verses (verses 3-29) are a periphrasis for I existed before creation, consequently before time was. I dwelt in God as a principle which might be communicated in its influences to intellectual beings when formed.
Barnes's Proverbs 8:26 Bible Commentary
The highest part of the dust of the world - literally, "the head of the dusts of the world;" an image of either:
(1) the dry land, habitable, fit for cultivation, as contrasted with the waters of the chaotic deep; or
(2) man himself. Compare Ecclesiastes 3:20.
Wesley's Proverbs 8:26 Bible Commentary
8:26 The earth - The dry land called earth after it was separated from the waters Genesis 1:10 .Fields - The plain and open parts of the earth distinguished from the mountains. Dust - Of this lower part of the world which consists of dust.
