I Wisdom (Sophia) dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge . . . . By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. . . . The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. . . .I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. . . . When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was with him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him. . .

Proverbs 8