25Before the mountains were settled, Yea, before the hills, I was brought forth;
26Ere yet he had made the land and the wastes, And the first of the clods of the earth.
27When he framed the heavens, I was there; When he drew a circle upon the face of the deep;
28When he made firm the sky above, And the fountains of the deep rushed forth;
29When he gave to the sea its bounds, that the waters should not pass their border; When he marked out the foundations of the earth,—
30Then was I by him as a master-builder; I was his delight day by day, Exulting before him at all times;