21 giving wealth to those who love me,filling their houses with treasures.
22 “The Lord created me first of all,the first of his works, long ago.
23 I was made in the very beginning,at the first, before the world began.
24 I was born before the oceans,when there were no springs of water.
25 I was born before the mountains,before the hills were set in place,
26 before God made the earth and its fieldsor even the first handful of soil.
27 I was there when he set the sky in place,when he stretched the horizon across the ocean,