12“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,
            And I find knowledge and discretion.
      13“The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;
            Pride and arrogance and the evil way
            And the perverted mouth, I hate.
      14“Counsel is mine and sound wisdom;
            I am understanding, power is mine.
      15“By me kings reign,
            And rulers decree justice.
      16“By me princes rule, and nobles,
            All who judge rightly.
      17“I love those who love me;
            And those who diligently seek me will find me.
      18“Riches and honor are with me,
            Enduring wealth and righteousness.
      19“My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold,
            And my yield better than choicest silver.
      20“I walk in the way of righteousness,
            In the midst of the paths of justice,
      21To 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;
      26While 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,
      28When He made firm the skies above,
            When the springs of the deep became fixed,
      29When He set for the sea its boundary
            So that the water would not transgress His command,
            When He marked out the foundations of the earth;
      30Then I was beside Him, as a master workman;
            And I was daily His delight,
            Rejoicing always before Him,
      31Rejoicing in the world, His earth,
            And having my delight in the sons of men.