21. That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries.
22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
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 upon the face of the deep:
28. When he made firm the sides above: when the fountains of the deep became strong:
29. When he gave to the sea its bound, that the waters should not transgress his commandment: when he marked out the foundations of the earth: