21. That I may cause those who love me to inherit [true] riches and that I may fill their treasuries.
22. The Lord formed and brought me [Wisdom] forth at the beginning of His way, before His acts of old.
23. I [Wisdom] was inaugurated and ordained from everlasting, from the beginning, before ever the earth existed. [John 1:1; I Cor. 1:24.]
24. When there were no deeps, I was brought forth, when there were no fountains laden with water.
25. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth, [Job 15:7, 8.]