While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. The highest part of the dust of the world - ראש עפרות תבל rosh aphroth tebel, "the first particle of matter." The prima materia, the primitive atom. All these verses (verses 3-29) are a periphrasis for I existed before creation, consequently before time was. I dwelt in God as a principle which might be communicated in its influences to intellectual beings when formed.
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Proverbs 8:26
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields,e nor the highest part of the dust of the world.