Proverbs 2:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ If thou seekest her as silver, And searchest for her as for hid treasures;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ If you seek [Wisdom] as for silver and search for skillful and godly Wisdom as for hidden treasures,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

Common English Bible

⁴ Seek it like silver; search for it like hidden treasure.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ if you will seek her like money, and dig for her as if for treasure,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:

Proverbs 2:4 Cross References

Genesis 26:32

That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

Job 3:21

who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Psalm 119:127

Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, above fine gold.

Psalm 119:14

In the way of thy testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.

Psalm 119:72

The law of thy 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

To get wisdom is better than gold; to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 2:3

yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 4:7

The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Matthew 13:44

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Matthew 19:29

And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

Luke 16:8

The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.