Proverbs 8:22-27

22“The Lord already possessed me long ago, when his way began, before any of his works.

23I was appointed from everlasting from the first, before the earth began.

24I was born before there were oceans, before there were springs filled with water.

25I was born before the mountains were settled in their places and before the hills,

26when he had not yet made land or fields or the first dust of the world.

27“When he set up the heavens, I was there. When he traced the horizon on the surface of the ocean,