8:1 Does not wisdom call out?
Does not understanding raise her voice?
8:22 The Lord created
before his deeds of long ago.
8:23 From eternity I was appointed,
from the beginning, from before the world existed.
8:24 When there were no deep oceans
when there were no springs overflowing
8:25 before the mountains were set in place –
before the hills – I was born,
8:26 before he made the earth and its fields,
or the beginning
8:27 When he established the heavens, I was there;
when he marked out the horizon
8:28 when he established the clouds above,
when the fountains of the deep grew strong,
8:29 when he gave the sea his decree
that the waters should not pass over his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
8:30 then I was
and I was his delight
rejoicing before him at all times,