Albert Barnes Commentary Proverbs 8:24

"When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water." — Proverbs 8:24 (ASV)

Compare Genesis 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.