18. With me are riches and honor, lasting wealth and righteousness.
19. My fruit is better than solid gold,and my harvest than pure silver.
20. I walk in the way of righteousness,along the paths of justice,
21. giving wealth as an inheritance to those who love me,and filling their treasuries.
22. “The Lord made meat the beginning of His creation, before His works of long ago.
23. I was formed before ancient times,from the beginning, before the earth began.
24. I was bornwhen there were no watery depths and no springs filled with water.
25. I was deliveredbefore the mountains and hills were established,
26. before He made the land, the fields,or the first soil on earth.
27. I was there when He established the heavens, when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,
28. when He placed the skies above,when the fountains of the ocean gushed out,
29. when He set a limit for the seaso that the waters would not violate His command, when He laid out the foundations of the earth.
30. I was a skilled craftsman beside Him. I was His delight every day,always rejoicing before Him.
31. I was rejoicing in His inhabited world, delighting in the human race.