Proverbs 8:21-30

²¹that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.

²²“The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.

²³I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

²⁴When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.

²⁵Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;

²⁶while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

²⁷When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

²⁸when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

²⁹when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

³⁰then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,