In either case, the compiler of the book of Proverbs was not aware of what later theologians of Christianity would recognize.
Verse 30 is set in the first person; the "I" who was there during creation is Wisdom--as I have mentioned before a word in Hebrew that is feminine.
Although I haven't yet read -- or even purchased-- everything that John Goldingay has written, I have read and been influenced by much of his work. Today, while pondering the lectionary passage from Proverbs, it finally occurred to me to see what Goldingay had to say.
[Wisdom] was not just standing there watching without influencing what Yhwh did, though even if she were, she ended up thrilled to bits with what eventuated....[T]he world is a place to learn from. Because the world is God's creation, it cannot but be an embodiment of wisdom. [Old Testament Theology, Volume 2]
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