17. I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.
18. Fortune and glory are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.
19. My fruit is better than gold, even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver.
20. In the way of righteousness I walk, in the midst of paths of justice,
21. in order to endow those who love me with wealth, and I will fill their treasuries.
22. “Yahweh possessed me, the first of his ways, before his acts of old.
23. From eternity, I was set up from the first, from the beginning of the earth.
24. When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs of abounding water.
25. Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth.
26. When he had not yet made earth and fields, or the first dust of the world,
27. when he established the heavens, there I was, when he drew a circle upon the face of the deep,
28. when he made skies from above, when he founded fountains of the deep,