Proverbs 8:15-31

15Kings reign by means of me, and potentates decree righteousness;

16by me princes rule, as well as nobles and all righteous judges.

17I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

18Riches and honor are with me, long-lasting wealth and righteousness.

19My fruit is better than the purest gold, and what I produce is better than choice silver.

20I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,

21that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, and that I may fill their treasuries.

22The Lord created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago.

23From eternity I was appointed, from the beginning, from before the world existed.

24When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

25before the mountains were set in place – before the hills – I was born,

26before he made the earth and its fields, or the beginning of the dust of the world.

27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

28when he established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep grew strong,

29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

30then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,

31rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.