Proverbs 8:17-34

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.

²⁸When he made steadfast the air above; and weighed the wells of waters.

²⁹When he compassed to the sea his mark; and setted or put law to waters, that they should not pass their coasts. When he weighed the foundaments of the earth;

³⁰I was making all things with him. And I delighted by all days, and played before him in all time,

³¹and I played in the world; and my delights be to be with the sons of men.

³²Now, therefore, sons, hear ye me; blessed be they that keep my ways.

³³Hear ye teaching, and be ye wise men; and do not ye cast it away.

³⁴Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth at my gates all day; and keepeth or waiteth at the posts of my doors.