18. Riches and honor are mine to give.So are wealth and lasting success.
19. What I give is better than the finest gold,better than the purest silver.
20. I do what is rightand follow the path of justice.
21. I give wealth to those who love me,filling their houses with treasures.
22. “I, wisdom, was with the Lord when he began his work,long before he made anything else.
23. I was created in the very beginning,even before the world began.
24. I was born before there were oceans,or springs overflowing with water,
25. before the hills were there,before the mountains were put in place.
26. God had not made the earth or fields,not even the first dust of the earth.
27. I was there when God put the skies in place,when he stretched the horizon over the oceans,
28. when he made the clouds aboveand put the deep underground springs in place.
29. I was there when he ordered the seanot to go beyond the borders he had set.I was there when he laid the earth’s foundation.
30. I was like a child by his side.I was delighted every day,enjoying his presence all the time,