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.