rsv Proverbs:8:22-31 SEEK
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The LORD created me at the beginning of his work ,
the first of his acts of old .
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Ages ago I was set up ,
at the first ,
before the beginning of the earth .
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When there were no depths I was brought forth ,
when there were no springs abounding with water .
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Before the mountains had been shaped ,
before the hills ,
I was brought forth ;
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before he had made the earth with its fields ,
or the first of the dust of the world .
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When he established the heavens ,
I was there ,
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep ,
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when he made firm the skies above ,
when he established the fountains of the deep ,
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when he assigned to the sea its limit ,
so that the waters might not transgress his command ,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth ,
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then I was beside him ,
like a master workman ;
and I was daily his delight ,
rejoicing before him always ,
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rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men .