Proverbs

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.] ³²Now therefore listen to me, O you sons; for blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are those who keep my ways. [Ps. 119:1, 2; 128:1, 2; Luke 11:28.]