Proverbs 16:16

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

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Therefore I love your mitzvot more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.*