Proverbs 8:19-36

¹⁹Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.

²⁰In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,

²¹To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill.

²²Jehovah possessed me — the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.

²³From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.

²⁴In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy with waters,

²⁵Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.

²⁶While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.

²⁷In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,

²⁸In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,

²⁹In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

³⁰Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight — day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,

³¹Rejoicing in the habitable part of His earth, And my delights are with the sons of men.

³²And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.

³³Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not.

³⁴O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.

³⁵For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

³⁶And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!