Pro 8:15-31 | ESV | STEP | By me kings reign , and rulers decree what is just ;

t Job 38:6 (Heb.)

u Ps. 90:2

v ch. 3:19

w Job 26:10

x Gen. 1:6

z Gen. 1:9, 10

aaSee Job 26:10

abSee Ps. 104:5

ac Zech. 13:7; [John 1:1, 2]

ae Ps. 16:3; [Matt. 3:17]

af[Gen. 1:31; Ps. 104:31]

ag Isa. 45:18

Proverbs 8:15-31

15 By me ^akings reign,
and rulers decree what is just;
16 by me princes rule,
and nobles, all who govern justly. ^{▼▼Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint govern the earth}
17 ^cI love those who love me,
and ^dthose who seek me diligently find me.
18 ^eRiches and honor are with me,
^fenduring wealth and ^grighteousness.
19 My fruit is ^hbetter than ⁱgold, even fine gold,
and my yield than ^jchoice silver.
20 I walk in the way of righteousness,
in the paths of justice,
21 granting an inheritance to those who love me,
and filling their treasuries.
22 ^k“The Lord ^lpossessed ^{▼▼Or fathered; Septuagint created} me at the beginning of his work, ^{▼▼Hebrew way}
the first of his acts ^oof old.
23 Ages ago I was ^pset up,
at the first, ^qbefore the beginning of the earth.
24 When there were no ^rdepths I was ^sbrought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains ^thad been shaped,
^ubefore the hills, I was brought forth,
26 before he had made the earth with its fields,
or the first of the dust of the world.
27 When he ^vestablished the heavens, I was there;
when he drew ^wa circle on the face of the deep,
28 when he ^xmade firm the skies above,
when he established ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain} the fountains of the deep,
29 when he ^zassigned to the sea its ^aalimit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out ^abthe foundations of the earth,
30 then ^acI was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his ^{▼▼Or daily filled with} ^aedelight,
rejoicing before him always,
31 ^afrejoicing in his ^aginhabited world
and delighting in the children of man.