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<strong>Proverbs</strong>, 50<br />
‘I was before<br />
fountains of water erupted.<br />
8:25 necdum montes gravi mole constiterant ante colles ego parturiebar<br />
‘Before massive mountains<br />
were piled together,<br />
and before the hills,<br />
I was born.<br />
8:26 adhuc terram non fecerat et flumina et cardines orbis terrae<br />
‘As yet, earth<br />
had not been made,<br />
nor rivers,<br />
nor the axis<br />
of the circles of earth.<br />
8:27 quando praeparabat caelos aderam quando certa lege et gyro vallabat abyssos<br />
‘I was there<br />
when he prepared the heavens,<br />
when he enclosed the abyss<br />
by fixed law and by course;<br />
8:28 quando aethera firmabat sursum et librabat fontes aquarum<br />
‘when he established<br />
the sky above,<br />
and freed the fountains of water;<br />
8:29 quando circumdabat mari terminum suum et legem ponebat aquis ne transirent fines suos<br />
quando adpendebat fundamenta terrae<br />
‘when he prescribed<br />
to the sea its limits,<br />
and placed a law on waters,<br />
‘They shall not pass their limits;’<br />
when he weighed out<br />
the foundation of earth;<br />
8:30 cum eo eram cuncta conponens et delectabar per singulos dies ludens coram eo omni<br />
tempore