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,