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.
32 "And now, children, listen to me; happy are those who will keep my ways.
33 Hear teaching and be wise; do not neglect it.
34 Happy is the person who listens to me, in order to keep watch at my doors day by day, in order to guard the frames of my entrances.
35 For he who finds me is he who finds* life, and he obtains favor from Yahweh.
36 But he who misses me injures himself.* All those who hate me love death."