21 that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth,and that I may fill their treasuries.
22 The Lord created me as the beginning of his works,before his deeds of long ago.
23 From eternity I was appointed,from the beginning, from before the world existed.
24 When there were no deep oceans I was born,when there were no springs overflowing with water;
25 before the mountains were set in place – before the hills – I was born,
26 before he made the earth and its fields,or the beginning of the dust of the world.
27 When he established the heavens, I was there;when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,