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Proverbs 8:11

King James 2000

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

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How sweet are your words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Therefore I love your commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

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

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

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

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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