The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. Neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out. . . . When he prepared the heavens, I was present. When with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths, When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters, 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
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