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;