Proverbs 8:22-30

[22]The LORD created me at the beginning of his work,  

     the first of his acts of long ago.  

[23]Ages ago I was set up,  

     at the first, before the beginning of the earth.  

[24]When there were no depths I was brought forth,  

     when there were no springs abounding with water.  

[25]Before the mountains had been shaped,  

     before the hills, I was brought forth --  

[26]when he had not yet made earth and fields,  

     or the world's first bits of soil.  

[27]When he established the heavens, I was there,  

     when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,  

[28]when he made firm the skies above,  

     when he established the fountains of the deep,  

[29]when he assigned to the sea its limit,  

     so that the waters might not transgress his command,  

when he marked out the foundations of the earth,  

[30]  then I was beside him, like a master worker;  

and I was daily his delight,  

     rejoicing before him always.