Proverbs 2:4 - The Scriptures 1998

If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hidden treasures,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

If thou seekest her as silver, And searchest for her as for hid treasures;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If you seek [Wisdom] as for silver and search for skillful and godly Wisdom as for hidden treasures,

American Standard Version (1901)

If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

Common English Bible

Seek it like silver; search for it like hidden treasure.

Catholic Public Domain Version

if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:

Proverbs 2:4 Cross References

Genesis 26:32

And on the same day it came to be that the servants of Yitsḥ

Job 3:21

who are waiting for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than treasures;

Psalm 119:127

Therefore I have loved Your commands More than gold, even fine gold!

Psalm 119:14

I have rejoiced in the way of Your witnesses, As over all riches.

Psalm 119:72

The Torah of Your mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Psalm 19:10

More desirable than gold, Than much fine gold; And sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is preferable to silver.

Proverbs 2:3

For if you cry for discernment, Lift up your voice for understanding,

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth and do not sell it – Wisdom and discipline and understanding.

Proverbs 4:7

“The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom! And with all your getting, get understanding.

Proverbs 8:17

“I love those who love me, And those who earnestly seek me do find me.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

Matthew 13:44

“Again, the reign of the heavens is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man having found it, hid, and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Matthew 19:29

“And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My Name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Luke 16:8

“And the master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly, because the sons of this age are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.