Proverbs 8:11

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.]

Cross References

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! [Ps. 19:10; Prov. 8:11.]

Psalm 119:127

Therefore I love Your commandments more than [resplendent] gold, yes, more than [perfectly] refined gold.

Psalm 119:72

The law from 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 than much fine gold; they are sweeter also than honey and drippings from the honeycomb.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get skillful and godly Wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. [Prov. 8:10, 19.]

Proverbs 20:15

There is gold, and a multitude of pearls, but the lips of knowledge are a vase of preciousness [the most precious of all]. [Job 28:12, 16-19; Prov. 3:15; 8:11.]

Proverbs 31:10

A capable, intelligent, and virtuous woman–who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls. [Prov. 12:4; 18:22; 19:14.]

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, yes, more excellent it is for those [the living] who see the sun.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life [his blessed life in the kingdom of God]? Or what would a man give as an exchange for his [blessed] life [in the kingdom of God]?

Deuteronomy 30:13

Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it?