²² The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.

²³ I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made.

²⁴ The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out:

³² Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.

³³ Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.

³⁴ Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.

³⁵ He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord: