16. By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.
17. I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.
18. With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.
19. For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.
20. I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,
21. That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.
22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.
23. I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made.
24. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out:
25. The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth:
26. He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.
27. When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths:
28. When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: