8 Doth not wisdom cry?
and understanding put forth her voice?
² She standeth in the top of high places,
by the way in the places of the paths.
³ She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city,
at the coming in at the doors.
⁴ Unto you, O men, I call;
and my voice is to the sons of man.

²² The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way,
before his works of old.
²³ I was set up from everlasting,
from the beginning, or ever the earth was.