Proverbs 8:24-28 ▼

24 The abyss did not yet exist, and I was already conceived; neither had the fountains of waters yet erupted.

25 The mountains, with their great mass, had not yet been established. Before the hills, I was brought forth.

26 Still he had not made the earth, and the rivers, and the poles of the globe of the earth.

27 I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;

28 when he made firm the sky above, and set free the fountains of waters;