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22 “The Lord made me in the beginning,
    long before he did anything else.
23 I was formed a long time ago,
    before the world was made.
24 I was born before there was an ocean,
    before the springs began to flow.
25 I was born before the mountains and hills
    were set into place,
26 before the earth and fields were made,
    before the dust of this world was formed.
27 I was there when he set up the skies,
    when he drew a circle in the ocean to make a place for the land.
28 I was there when he put the clouds in the sky
    and made the deep springs flow.
29 I was there when he set the limits on the sea
    to make it stop where he said.
I was there when he laid the foundations of the earth.
30 I grew up as a child by his side,[a]
    laughing and playing all the time.
31 I played in the world he made
    and enjoyed the people he put there.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 8:30 I grew … his side Or “I was beside him like a skilled worker.”

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