Proverbs 8:16-26

¹⁶By me nobles become great, and monarchs by me rule over the earth.

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

¹⁸Wealth and glory belong to me; yes, abundant possessions and righteousness.

¹⁹It is better to have my fruit than to have gold and precious stones; and my produce is better than choice silver.

²⁰I walk in ways of righteousness, and am conversant with the paths of judgment;

²¹that I may divide substance to them that love me, and may fill their treasures with good things. If I declare to you the things that daily happen, I will remember also to recount the things of old.

²²The Lord made me the beginning of his ways for his works.

²³He established me before time was in the beginning, before he made the earth:

²⁴even before he made the depths; before the fountains of water came forth:

²⁵before the mountains were settled, and before all hills, he begets me.

²⁶The Lord made countries and uninhabited tracks, and the highest inhabited parts of the world.