19 For my fruit is better than gold and precious stones, and my progeny better than choice silver.
20 I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,
21 so that I may enrich those who love me, and thus complete their treasures.
22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made anything, from the beginning.
23 I was ordained from eternity, and out of antiquity, before the earth was formed.
24 The abyss did not yet exist, and I was already conceived; neither had the fountains of waters yet erupted.
25 The mountains, with their great mass, had not yet been established. Before the hills, I was brought forth.