Trinity Sunday and Proverbs 8:22-31

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What does this passage have to do with Trinity Sunday?

Proverbs 8:
22 The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts 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 established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, 28 when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, 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; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, 31 rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.
 
From the Navarre Bible Commentary on the Book of Wisdom:
…Here Wisdom is depicted as having the features of a person; this prepares the way for us to grasp, later on, as Revelation progresses, the mystery of the Blessed Trinity.

The prologue of the Gospel of St. John will use language similar to that used here to describe the relationship between God and the Word (vv. 22-30, cf. Jn 1:1; v. 35; John 1:4). The status held by Wisdom in this poem will be attributed to Christ in the New Testament texts: in the Letter to the Colossians he is described as “the first-born of all creation” (Col. 1:15) and in the book of Revelation as “the beginning of God’s creation” (Rev. 3:14). It is with this meaning that the Church’s liturgy uses Proverbs 8:22-31 on the solemnity of Trinity Sunday (Cycle C).
 
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