Proverbs 8:16-27

¹⁶Princes command by me; and mighty men deem rightfulness or rightwiseness by me.

¹⁷I love them that love me; and they that wake early to me, shall find me.

¹⁸With me be riches, and glory; sovereign riches, and rightfulness or rightwiseness.

¹⁹My fruit is better than gold, and precious stone; and my seeds or my burgeonings be better than chosen silver.

²⁰I go in the ways of rightfulness or rightwiseness, in the midst of the paths of doom;

²¹that I make rich them that love me, and that I fill their treasures or their treasuries.

²²The Lord wielded me in the beginning of his ways; before that he made anything, at the beginning.

²³From without beginning I was ordained; and from eld or old times, before that the earth was made.

²⁴The Depths of waters were not yet; and I was conceived then. The wells of waters had not broken out yet,

²⁵and hills stood not altogether yet by firm heaviness; before little hills I was born.

²⁶Yet he had not made the earth; and floods, and the earths of the world.

²⁷When he made ready heavens, I was present; when he compassed or enclosed the depths of waters by certain law and compass.