For I was a son to my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the assembly and congregation.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was,

when there were no depths. I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water,

before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth

When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,

then I was by him, a master workman. And I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him,

rejoicing in his habitable earth. And my delight was with the sons of men.

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns. The face of it was covered with nettles, and the stone wall of it was broken down.