Proverbs

²²The Lord formed and brought me [Wisdom] forth at the beginning of His way, before His acts of old. ²³I [Wisdom] was inaugurated and ordained from everlasting, from the beginning, before ever the earth existed. [John 1:1; I Cor. 1:24.] ²⁴When there were no deeps, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains laden with water. ²⁵Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth, [Job 15:7, 8.] ²⁶While as yet He had not made the land or the fields or the first of the dust of the earth. ²⁷When He prepared the heavens, I [Wisdom] was there; when He drew a circle upon the face of the deep and stretched out the firmament over it, ²⁸When He made firm the skies above, when He established the fountains of the deep,