Proverbs 16:16

New American Bible - revised edition

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is preferable to silver.

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Truly I love your commandments more than gold, more than the finest gold.

If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out,

Happy the one who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding!

Her profit is better than profit in silver, and better than gold is her revenue;

Get wisdom, get understanding! Do not forget or turn aside from the words of my mouth.

The beginning of wisdom is: get wisdom; whatever else you get, get understanding.

My fruit is better than gold, even pure gold, and my yield than choice silver.

For the protection of wisdom is as the protection of money; and knowledge is profitable because wisdom gives life to those who possess it.

What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?

Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God.” Dependence on God.