Proverbs 8:22-31

"The LORD possessed me at the

beginning of His work,

the first of His acts of old.

Ages ago I was set up, 

at the first, before the beginning of the

earth.

When there were no depths I was

 brought forth,

when there were no springs 

abounding with water.

Before the mountains had been shaped,

 before the hills, I was brought forth,

before He had made the earth with its 

fields,

or the first of the dust of the world.

When He established the heavens, I was

there;

when He drew a circle on the face of

 the deep,

when He made firm the skies above,

when He established the fountains of 

the deep,

when He assigned to the sea its limit,

 so that the waters might not transgress

His command,

when he marked out the foundations of

the earth,

then I was beside Him, like a master

workman,

and I was daily His delight,

rejoicing in His inhabited world

and delighting in the children of man.