18. "Riches and honor are with me, Enduring wealth and righteousness.
19. "My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold, And my yield better than choicest silver.
20. "I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice,
21. To endow those who love me with wealth, That I may fill their treasuries.
22. "The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old.
23. "From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
24. "When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.
25. "Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;
26. While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world.
27. "When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
28. When He made firm the skies above, When the springs of the deep became fixed,