PROVERBS 8:24-30

²⁴When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

²⁵Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

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 upon the face of the deep:

²⁸When he made firm the sides above: when the fountains of the deep became strong:

²⁹When he gave to the sea its bound, that the waters should not transgress his commandment: when he marked out the foundations of the earth:

³⁰Then I was by him, as a master workman: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;