Proverbs 8:16-29

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

¹⁷I indeed love those that love me: and those that seek me earnestly shall find me.

¹⁸Riches and honor are with me, yea, enduring wealth and righteousness.

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

²⁰On the road of righteousness do I walk firmly, in the midst the paths of justice:

²¹That I may cause those that love me to inherit a lasting possession; and their treasures will I fill

²²The Lord created me as the beginning of his way, the first of his works from the commencement,

²³From eternity was I appointed chief, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.

²⁴When there were yet no depths, was I brought forth; when there were yet no springs laden heavily with water.

²⁵Before the mountains were yet sunk down, before the hills was I brought forth:

²⁶While as yet he had not made the land and open fields, nor the chief of the dust of the world.

²⁷When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle over the face of the deep;

²⁸When he fastened the skies above; when the springs of the deep became strong;

²⁹When he assigned to the sea his decree, that the waters should not transgress his order: when he established firmly the foundations of the earth: