25. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth,
26. before he had made the earth with its fields,or the first of the dust of the world.
27. When he established the heavens, I was there;when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
28. when he made firm the skies above,when he established the fountains of the deep,
29. 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,
30. then I was beside him, like a master workman,and I was daily his delight,rejoicing before him always,
31. rejoicing in his inhabited worldand delighting in the children of man.
32. “And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways.