Why static fields are not initialized in time?

The following code prints null once.

class MyClass {
   private static MyClass myClass = new MyClass();
   private static final Object obj = new Object();
   public MyClass() {
      System.out.println(obj);
   }
   public static void main(String[] args) {}
}

Why are the static objects not initialized before the constructor runs?

Update

I'd just copied this example program without attention, I thought we were talking about 2 Object fields, now I saw that the first is a MyClass field.. :/