17. I love those who love me. Those who earnestly seek me find me.
18. With me are wealth and honor, enduring riches and righteousness.
19. My fruit is better than refined gold, my harvest better than choice silver.
20. I walk in the way of righteousness, along paths of justice.
21. I endow substance to those who love me and fill their treasuries.
22. “Adonai brought me forth, the first of His way, before His works of old.
23. From eternity I was appointed from the beginning, before the world began.
24. When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25. Before the mountains were shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth.
26. He had not yet made the land, the fields, or the first dust of the earth.
27. When He set the heavens in place, I was there. When He inscribed the horizon on the face of the ocean,
28. when He established the skies above, when He securely fixed the fountains of the deep,
29. when He set the boundaries for the sea, so that the waters never transgress His command, when He laid out earth’s foundations—