14. I have counsel and sound knowledge, I have understanding, I have might and power.
15. By me kings reign and rulers decree justice. [Dan. 2:21; Rom. 13:1.]
16. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges and governors of the earth.
17. I love those who love me, and those who seek me early and diligently shall find me. [I Sam. 2:30; Ps. 91:14; John 14:21; James 1:5.]
18. Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness (uprightness in every area and relation, and right standing with God). [Prov. 3:16; Matt. 6:33.]
19. My fruit is better than gold, yes, than refined gold, and my increase than choice silver.
20. I [Wisdom] walk in the way of righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation), in the midst of the paths of justice,
21. That I may cause those who love me to inherit [true] riches and that I may fill their treasuries.
22. The Lord formed and brought me [Wisdom] forth at the beginning of His way, before His acts of old.
23. I [Wisdom] was inaugurated and ordained from everlasting, from the beginning, before ever the earth existed. [John 1:1; I Cor. 1:24.]
24. When there were no deeps, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains laden with water.
25. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth, [Job 15:7, 8.]
26. While as yet He had not made the land or the fields or the first of the dust of the earth.
27. When He prepared the heavens, I [Wisdom] was there; when He drew a circle upon the face of the deep and stretched out the firmament over it,
28. When He made firm the skies above, when He established the fountains of the deep,
29. When He gave to the sea its limit and His decree that the waters should not transgress [across the boundaries set by] His command, when He appointed the foundations of the earth–[Job 38:10, 11; Ps. 104:6-9; Jer. 5:22.]
30. Then I [Wisdom] was beside Him as a master and director of the work; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing before Him always, [Matt. 3:17; John 1:2, 18.]
31. Rejoicing in His inhabited earth and delighting in the sons of men. [Ps. 16:3.]