Proverbs [Sayings] 8:15-27

¹⁵By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

¹⁶By me princes rule; nobles, and all the upright rulers of the earth.

¹⁷I 'ahav ·affectionately love· those who 'ahav ·affectionately love· me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

¹⁸With me are riches, kavod ·weighty glory·, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

¹⁹My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver.

²⁰I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of mishpat ·justice·;

²¹That I may give wealth to those who 'ahav ·affectionately love· me. I fill their treasuries.

²²“ Adonai possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.

²³I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

²⁴When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.

²⁵Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;

²⁶while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

²⁷When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,