Proverbs

²⁴When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. ²⁵Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: ²⁶While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. ²⁷When he established the heavens, I was there: when he set a circle upon the face of the deep: ²⁸When he made firm the sides above: when the fountains of the deep became strong: ²⁹When he gave to the sea its bound, that the waters should not transgress his commandment: when he marked out the foundations of the earth: ³⁰Then I was by him, as a master workman: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;