Proverbs 8:15-31

¹⁵By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

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

¹⁷I love them that love me, and those that seek me earnestly shall find me.

¹⁸Riches and honour are with me; yea, enduring riches and righteousness.

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

²⁰I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;

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

²²The LORD made me as the beginning of His way, the first of His works of old.

²³I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever 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.

²⁷When He established the heavens, I was there; when He set a circle upon the face of the deep,

²⁸When He made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep showed their might,

²⁹When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not transgress His commandment, when He appointed the foundations of the earth;

³⁰Then I was by Him, as a nursling; and I was daily all delight, playing always before Him,

³¹Playing in His habitable earth, and my delights are with the sons of men.