As Lady Wisdom “speaks,” Solomon is personifying Wisdom, showing that the pursuit of wisdom necessarily involves a relationship. Lady Wisdom continues to make a compelling case for listening to her.
It's important for Christians to have a right understanding of the doctrine of God. When Lady Wisdom says in v. 22, 'The Lord possessed me...,' we’re not to understand that she exists outside of God, nor that God and Lady Wisdom partnered in creating the heavens and the earth. It is not true that before the heavens and earth were created there existed a Triune God...and Lady Wisdom. God is wise because he is wisdom. God didn’t become wise through a relationship with Lady Wisdom. He has always been wise because he has always been wisdom.
That all being said, Solomon is saying through Lady Wisdom that the all-wise God created the world according to wisdom. His wisdom in creation declares his glory. Lady Wisdom says that she was present throughout the creation process, indicating that God’s wisdom is put on full display in creation. No part of God’s creation fails in declaring his infinite wisdom.
In v. 30, Lady Wisdom compares herself to a master workman. A master goes through years of training, apprenticeships, and honing their craft. In the world of Bible rebinding, there are many master workmen. It’s wonderful to see their work. They have no doubt drawn from the deep well of wisdom in the Bible rebinding community. By contrast, God never has to draw from another’s well. He never has to be trained. He never goes through an apprenticeship. He never has to hone his craft. He is a master workman in himself.
Notice, finally, the interplay between Lady Wisdom and God in vv. 30-31: 'I was daily his [God’s] delight, [and I was] rejoicing before him always, [I was] rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man [all which he made].' God delights in wisdom, and wisdom, personified in Lady Wisdom, rejoices in God and his creation.
Why go to all this trouble, Solomon? I think this is his point: if God is a master workman, creating a world that displays his wisdom, then the all-wise God will build your life if you pursue him and his wisdom. Pursue him!
Proverbs 8:22–31 (ESV) 22 “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his ac ts of old. 23 Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. 24 When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, 26 before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. 27 When he est ablished the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 28 when he made firm the skies abov e, when he established the fountains of the deep, 29 when he assigned t o the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the eart h, 30 then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily h is delight, rejoicing before him always, 31 rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.