Proverbs 8:26-32

ECB(i) 26 while as yet he had neither worked the earth nor the outways nor the top of the dust of the world: 27 when he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he engraved a circle on the face of the abyss; 28 when he strengthened the vapours above; when he strengthened the eyes of the abyss; 29 when he set his statute to the sea, that the waters not pass his mouth; when he prescribed the foundations of the earth; 30 then I am beside him, as one brought up; and day by day I am his delight, at all times laughing by his face; 31 laughing in the world of his earth; and my delights are with the sons of humanity. 32 Now, O sons, hearken to me, for blithe - they who guard my ways;