²² “The Lord created me at the beginning^[a] of his work,^[b]
    the first of his acts of long ago.^(A)
23 Ages ago I was set up,
    at the first, before the beginning of the earth.^(B)

²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there;
    when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,^(A)

³⁰     then I was beside him, like a master worker,^[a]
and I was daily his^[b] delight,
    playing before him always,^(A)
31 playing in his inhabited world
    and delighting in the human race.^(B)