Proverbs 8:24-34

²⁴When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.

²⁵Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.

²⁶He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.

²⁷When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.

²⁸When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,

²⁹When he gaue his decree to the Sea, that the waters shoulde not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth,

³⁰Then was I with him as a nourisher, and I was dayly his delight reioycing alway before him,

³¹And tooke my solace in the compasse of his earth: and my delite is with the children of men.

³²Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.

³³Heare instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not: blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, and giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.

³⁴For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shall obteine fauour of the Lord.