Proverbs 8:25-26

8:25 before the mountains were set in place –

before the hills – I was born,

8:26 before he made the earth and its fields, ¹ 

or the beginning ²  of the dust of the world.

[8:26]  ¹ tn Heb “open places.”

[8:26]  ² tn Here רֹאשׁ (ro’sh) means “beginning” with reference to time (BDB 911 s.v. 4.b).