LEB(i)
22 "Yahweh possessed* me, the first of his ways, before his acts ⌊of old⌋.*
23 From eternity, I was set up from the first, from the beginning* of the earth.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs of ⌊abounding⌋* water.
25 Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth.
26 When he had not yet made earth and fields, or the first dust of the world,
27 ⌊when he established⌋* the heavens, there I was, ⌊when he drew⌋* a circle upon the face of the deep,
28 ⌊when he made⌋* skies from above, when he founded fountains of the deep,
29 ⌊when he assigned⌋* his limits to the sea, that waters shall not transgress his ⌊command⌋,* ⌊when he marked⌋* the foundations of the earth,
30 I was ⌊beside⌋* him, a master workman, and I was delighting day by day, rejoicing before him ⌊always⌋,*
31 rejoicing in the world of his earth, and my delight was with the children of humankind.