The Reply of the Tongue Is from the LORD

Proverbs 16:16

In 11 translations

BSB: How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
KJV: How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
WEB: How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
ASV: How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
LSV: To get wisdom—how much better than gold, || And to get understanding—to be chosen [more] than silver!
YLT: To get wisdom — how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!
DBY: How much better is it to get wisdom than fine gold, and the getting of intelligence to be preferred to silver!
DRC: Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.
GNV: Howe much better is it to get wisedome then golde? and to get vnderstanding, is more to be desired then siluer.
JPS: How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
LXXE: The brood of wisdom is more to be chosen than gold, and the brood of prudence more to be chosen than silver.Or, Abodes. Comp. Heb. See Luke 13. 35.

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

WLC: קְֽנֹה־חָכְמָ֗ה מַה־טּ֥וֹב מֵחָר֑וּץ וּקְנ֥וֹת בִּ֝ינָ֗ה נִבְחָ֥ר מִכָּֽסֶף׃
LXX-Br: Νοσσιαὶ σοφίας αἱρετώτεραι χρυσίου, νοσσιαὶ δὲ φρονήσεως αἱρετώτεραι ὑπὲρ ἀργύριον.

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Proverbs 8:10–11Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold. For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.
Proverbs 8:19My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.
Luke 12:21This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
Proverbs 3:15–18She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire compares with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. All her ways are pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful. She is a tree of…
Ecclesiastes 7:12For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
Proverbs 4:7Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.
Psalms 119:127Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.
Job 28:13–28No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living. The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’ It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed…

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