Proverbs 8:14-26

Tree of Life Version

¹⁴ Counsel and sound wisdom are mine.
I have understanding and power.
¹⁵ By me kings reign
and princes decree justice.
¹⁶ By me princes govern,
and all nobles who judge righteously.
¹⁷ I love those who love me.
Those who earnestly seek me find me.^[a]
18 With me are wealth and honor,
enduring riches and righteousness.
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.