Proverbs 8:22–31

(Found here)

Thus says the wisdom of God:

“The LORD possessed me, the beginning of his ways,

   the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago;

from of old I was poured forth,

   at the first, before the earth.

When there were no depths I was brought forth,

   when there were no fountains or springs of water;

before the mountains were settled into place,

   before the hills, I was brought forth;

while as yet the earth and fields were not made,

   nor the first clods of the world.

“When the LORD established the heavens I was there,

   when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep;

when he made firm the skies above,

   when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth;

when he set for the sea its limit,

   so that the waters should not transgress his command;

then was I beside him as his craftsman,

   and I was his delight day by day,

playing before him all the while,

   playing on the surface of his earth;

   and I found delight in the human race.”