8:20. I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,
8:21. That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.
8:22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.
8:23. I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made.
8:24. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.
8:25. The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth:
8:26. He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.
8:27. When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law, and compass, he enclosed the depths:
8:28. When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:
8:29. When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth;