There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Job 28:18 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: For the price of wisdom is above rubies. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; for the possession of Wisdom is even above rubies or pearls. American Standard Version (1901) No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies. Common English Bible Coral and jasper shouldn’t be mentioned; the price of wisdom is more than rubies. Catholic Public Domain Version The exalted and the eminent will not be remembered in comparison with it. Yet wisdom is drawn out of concealment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of it: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places. |
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding:
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.