Proverbs 8:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ For skillful and godly Wisdom is better than rubies or pearls, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. [Job 28:15; Ps. 19:10; 119:127.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Wisdom is better than pearls; nothing is more delightful than she.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ For wisdom is better than all that is most precious, and everything that is desirable cannot compare to her.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.

Proverbs 8:11 Cross References

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 119:127

Truly I love your commandments more than gold, more than fine gold.

Psalm 119:72

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 20:15

There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips informed by knowledge are a precious jewel.

Proverbs 31:10

A woman of strength who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

Deuteronomy 30:13

Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross to the other side of the sea for us and get it for us so that we may hear it and observe it?’