22 “The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his work,before his deeds of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning,before the earth existed.
24 When there were no depths, I was born,when there were no springs abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled in place,before the hills, I was born;
26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
27 When he established the heavens, I was there;when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
28 when he established the clouds above,when the springs of the deep became strong,