9. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
10. Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto her.
12. I wisdom have made subtilty my dwelling, and find out knowledge and discretion.
13. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14. Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
15. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17. I love them that love me; and those that seek me diligently shall find me.
18. Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
19. My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20. I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21. That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries.
22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26. While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
27. When he established the heavens, I was there: when he set a circle upon the face of the deep:
28. When he made firm the sides above: when the fountains of the deep became strong:
29. When he gave to the sea its bound, that the waters should not transgress his commandment: when he marked out the foundations of the earth: