Proverbs 8:20-35

²⁰I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,

²¹That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.

²²The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.

²³I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made.

²⁴The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out:

²⁵The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth:

²⁶He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.

²⁷When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths:

²⁸When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:

²⁹When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth;

³⁰I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;

³¹Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.

³²Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.

³³Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.

³⁴Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.

³⁵He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord: