22The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.
23From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.
24When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.
25Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:
26When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.
27When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep: