Proverbs 2:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hidden treasures,

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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,

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.