22. “Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.
23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
24. When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.
25. Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
26. while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
27. When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
28. when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,