18. With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.
19. My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver.
20. I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
21. bestowing a rich inheritance on those who love me and making their treasuries full.
22. “The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old;
23. I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be.
24. When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
25. before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth,
26. before he made the world or its fields or any of the dust of the earth.
27. I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,