Proverbs 8:13-22

¹³The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.

¹⁴Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.

¹⁵By me kings reign, and rulers make just decrees;

¹⁶by me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.

¹⁷I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.

¹⁸Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.

¹⁹My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

²⁰I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

²¹that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.

²²Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.