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29 when he assigned to the sea its limit,
    so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
30     then I was beside him, like a master workman;[a]
and I was daily his[b] delight,
    rejoicing before him always,
31 rejoicing in his inhabited world
    and delighting in the sons of men.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 8:30 Another reading is little child
  2. Proverbs 8:30 Gk: Heb lacks his

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