25 Before the mountains (A)had been shaped,
    (B)before the hills, I was brought forth,
26 before he had made the earth with its fields,
    or the first of the dust of the world.
27 When he (C)established the heavens, I was there;
    when he drew (D)a circle on the face of the deep,
28 when he (E)made firm the skies above,
    when he established[a] the fountains of the deep,
29 when he (F)assigned to the sea its (G)limit,
    so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out (H)the foundations of the earth,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 8:28 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

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