Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
I was set up - Rather, "I was anointed" (compare Psalms 2:6 margin: II Chronicles 28:15). The image is that of Wisdom anointed, as at her birth, with "the oil of gladness."
Or ever the earth was - literally, "from the times before the earth."
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Proverbs 8:23:
Micah 5:2
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