Proverbs 8:11

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for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

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Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, above fine gold.

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

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

To get wisdom is better than gold; to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

There is gold, and abundance of costly stones; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

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

How sweet are thy words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.

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