10. Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold.
11. For better [is] wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.
12. I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, And a knowledge of devices I find out.
13. The fear of Jehovah [is] to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
14. Mine [is] counsel and substance, I [am] understanding, I have might.
15. By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness,
16. By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth.
17. I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me.
18. Wealth and honour [are] with me, Lasting substance and righteousness.
19. Better [is] my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.
20. In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,
21. To cause my lovers to inherit substance, Yea, their treasures I fill.
22. Jehovah possessed me--the beginning of His way, Before His works since then.
23. From the age I was anointed, from the first, From former states of the earth.
24. In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy [with] waters,
25. Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.
26. While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.
27. In His preparing the heavens I [am] there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,
28. In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,
29. In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,