22 “Adonai brought me forth, the first of His way, before His works of old.
23 From eternity I was appointed from the beginning, before the world began.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth.
26 He had not yet made the land, the fields, or the first dust of the earth.
27 When He set the heavens in place, I was there. When He inscribed the horizon on the face of the ocean,
28 when He established the skies above, when He securely fixed the fountains of the deep,