Proverbs

¹⁸With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity. ¹⁹My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver. ²⁰I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice, ²¹bestowing 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; ²³I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be. ²⁴When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;