19 The Lord dby wisdom founded the earth;
by understanding he established the heavens;
22 z“The Lord apossessed1 me bat the beginning of his work,2
the first of his acts of old.
23 Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, cbefore the beginning of the earth.
24 When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
25 dBefore the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth,
26 before he had made the earth with its fields,
or ethe first of the dust of the world.
27 When he festablished the heavens, I was there;
when he gdrew a circle on the face of the deep,
28 hwhen he made firm the skies above,
when he established3 the ifountains of the deep,
29 jwhen he kassigned 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 lbeside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his4 delight,
rejoicing before him always,
31 rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the children of man.
12 eIt is he who made the earth by his power,
who established the world fby his wisdom,
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
15 s“It is he who made the earth by his power,
who established the world tby his wisdom,
and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
