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Proverbs 8:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

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How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold.

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

More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.

Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.

Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.

For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

And they are not across the sea, for you to say, Who will go over the sea for us and give us news of them so that we may do them?