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Proverbs 8:11

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.

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How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

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

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

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

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

There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

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?

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