God made me [Wisdom] in the beginning of His works, as the first of His acts. ... Before God made the earth and the fields or the first dust of the world,when He set up the heavens, I was there; ... When He laid the foundations of the earth, I existed as His instrument. I was His delight every day, playing always before Him, playing on His inhabited earth, and my delights are with human beings.

(The Book of Proverbs)