For wisdom is better than jewels, and all delights cannot be compared to it.
How sweet are Your words to my palate! More than honey to my mouth!
Therefore, I have loved Your commands, more than gold, even fine gold.
The Law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
They are more desirable than gold, even much fine gold, and sweeter than honey, even drops from the honeycomb.
How much better to obtain wisdom than gold! And to obtain understanding is to be chosen above silver.
There is gold and a multitude of gems, but the lips of knowledge are a rare vessel.
Who can find a woman of virtue? For her value is far above jewels.
Wisdom is good with an inheritance; yea, an advantage to those who see the sun.
For what will a man be benefited if he should gain the whole world, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?
And it is not beyond the sea that you should say, Who shall cross over for us to the region beyond the sea and take it for us, and cause us to hear it, that we may do it?