Proverbs

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, ²⁹When He gave to the sea its limit and His decree that the waters should not transgress [across the boundaries set by] His command, when He appointed the foundations of the earth–[Job 38:10, 11; Ps. 104:6-9; Jer. 5:22.] ³⁰Then I [Wisdom] was beside Him as a master and director of the work; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing before Him always, [Matt. 3:17; John 1:2, 18.] ³¹Rejoicing in His inhabited earth and delighting in the sons of men. [Ps. 16:3.]