By his knowledge the primordial sea was broken open, and the clouds drip down dew.

When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house

Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.

From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before the world existed.

When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

before the mountains were set in place -- before the hills -- I was born,

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,

Do not move an ancient boundary stone which was put in place by your ancestors.

I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.

so is a person who deceives his neighbor, and says, "Was I not only joking?"