Proverbs 8:13-26

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.

²³I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.

²⁴When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.

²⁵Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;

²⁶while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.