12. I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find the knowledge which cometh of reflection.
13. The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
14. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am intelligence; I have strength.
15. By me kings reign, and rulers make just decrees;
16. by me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.
17. I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.
18. Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.
19. My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20. I walk in the path of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21. that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.
22. Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23. I was set up from eternity, from the beginning, before the earth was.
24. When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;
26. while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
27. When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he ordained the circle upon the face of the deep;
28. when he established the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong;
29. when he imposed on the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30. then I was by him his nursling, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;