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.
1 tn Heb “open places.”
2 tn Here רֹאשׁ (ro’sh) means “beginning” with reference to time (BDB 911 s.v. 4.b).