Proverbs

²¹bestowing a rich inheritance on those who love me and making their treasuries full. ²²“The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; ²³I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be. ²⁴When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water; ²⁵before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth, ²⁶before he made the world or its fields or any of the dust of the earth. ²⁷I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,