Proverbs 8:20-28

²⁰I walk in ways of righteousness, and am conversant with the paths of judgement;

²¹that I may divide substance to them that love me, and may fill their treasures with good things. If I declare to you the things that daily happen, I will remember also to recount the things of old.

²²The Lord made me the beginning of his ways for his works.

²³He established me before time was in the beginning, before he made the earth:

²⁴even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth:

²⁵before the mountains were settled, and before all hills, he begets me.

²⁶The Lord made countries and uninhabited tracks, and the highest inhabited parts of the world.

²⁷When he prepared the heaven, I was present with him; and when he prepared his throne upon the winds:

²⁸and when he strengthened the clouds above; and when he secured the fountains of the earth: