Proverbs 8:17-27

New American Standard Bible

¹⁷ I ^(A)love those who love me;
And ^(B)those who diligently seek me will find me.
^18 (C)Riches and honor are with me,
Enduring ^(D)wealth and righteousness.
¹⁹ My fruit is ^(E)better than gold, even pure gold;
And my yield better than ^(F)choice silver.
²⁰ I walk in the way of righteousness,
In the midst of the paths of justice,
²¹ To endow those who love me with wealth,
That I may ^(G)fill their treasuries.

²² “The Lord ^[a]created me ^(H)at the beginning of His way,
Before His works ^[b]of old.
²³ From eternity I was ^[c](I)established,
From the beginning, ^(J)from the earliest times of the earth.
²⁴ When there were no ^(K)ocean depths, I was born,
When there were no springs abounding with water.
^25 (L)Before the mountains were settled,
Before the hills, I was born;
²⁶ While He had not yet made the earth and the ^[d]fields,
Nor the first dust of the world.
²⁷ When He ^(M)established the heavens, I was there;
When ^(N)He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,