19 My gifts are better than gold, even the purest gold,my wages better than sterling silver!
20 I walk in righteousness,in paths of justice.
21 Those who love me inherit wealth.I will fill their treasuries.
22 “The lord formed me from the beginning,before he created anything else.
23 I was appointed in ages past,at the very first, before the earth began.
24 I was born before the oceans were created,before the springs bubbled forth their waters.
25 Before the mountains were formed,before the hills, I was born—