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 fill their treasuries.
22. "The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, Before His works of old.
23. "From everlasting I was established, From the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth.
24. "When there were no depths I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.
25. "Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;
26. While He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world.
27. "When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
28. When He made firm the skies above, When the springs of the deep became fixed,