23. I was set up with eternal dominion, from the beginning, before the earth was.
24. I was begotten before the depths, before the existence of the fountains of many waters.
25. Before the mountains were founded, before the hills was I begotten.
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 composed the heavens, I was there. When he set a compass upon the face of the depth,