Proverbs 8:13-29

¹³The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.

¹⁴I haue counsell and wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.

¹⁵By me, Kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.

¹⁶By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the iudges of the earth.

¹⁷I loue them that loue me: and they that seeke me earely, shall finde me.

¹⁸Riches and honour are with me: euen durable riches and righteousnesse.

¹⁹My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.

²⁰I cause to walke in the way of righteousnes, and in the middes of the paths of iudgement,

²¹That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.

²²The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his workes of olde.

²³I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.

²⁴When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.

²⁵Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.

²⁶He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.

²⁷When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.

²⁸When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,

²⁹When he gaue his decree to the Sea, that the waters shoulde not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth,