Proverbs 8:15-31

15By me kings reign and princes decree justice.

16By me princes govern, and all nobles who judge righteously.

17I love those who love me. Those who earnestly seek me find me.

18With me are wealth and honor, enduring riches and righteousness.

19My fruit is better than refined gold, my harvest better than choice silver.

20I walk in the way of righteousness, along paths of justice.

21I endow substance to those who love me and fill their treasuries.

22“Adonai brought me forth, the first of His way, before His works of old.

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

24When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.

25Before the mountains were shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth.

26He had not yet made the land, the fields, or the first dust of the earth.

27When He set the heavens in place, I was there. When He inscribed the horizon on the face of the ocean,

28when He established the skies above, when He securely fixed the fountains of the deep,

29when He set the boundaries for the sea, so that the waters never transgress His command, when He laid out earth’s foundations—

30then I was the craftsman beside Him, I was His daily delight, always rejoicing before Him,

31rejoicing in His whole world, and delighting in mankind.