Where did it come from before there was scripture?
Hebrews 1 says that in the past, God spoke to the people through His prophets, and in these “last days” through His Son.
You could stretch that over to John 1, where Jesus is referred to as the Word, giving us that God speaks to us today through His Son and His Word.
“I thought the word came from God who chose men to record it which they did.”
So where was the word before it was inscripturated - which sometimes took centuries or even millenia? And are you saying God is restricted to giving the word only in written form?