Proverbs Chapter 16 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 16:16

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
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BBE Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.
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DARBY Proverbs 16:16

How much better is it to get wisdom than fine gold, and the getting of intelligence to be preferred to silver!
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KJV Proverbs 16:16

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
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WBT Proverbs 16:16


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WEB Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
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YLT Proverbs 16:16

To get wisdom -- how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - To get wisdom than gold (comp, Proverbs 3:14; Proverbs 8:10, 11, 19); and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver; Revised Version better, yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than [to get] silver. If the clauses are not simply parallel, and the comparative value of silver and gold is So be considered, we may, with Wordsworth, see here an intimation of the superiority of wisdom (chochmah) over intelligence (binah), the former being the guide of life and including the practice of religion, the latter denoting discernment, the faculty of distinguishing between one thing and another (see note on Proverbs 28:4, and the quotation from 'Pirke Aboth' on Proverbs 15:33). The LXX., for kenoh reading kinnot, have given a version of which the Fathers have largely availed themselves: "The nests of wisdom are preferable to gold, and the nests of knowledge are preferable above silver." Some of the old commentators take these "nests" to be the problems and apothegms which enshrine wisdom; others consider them to mean the children or scholars who are taught by the wise man.

Ellicott's Commentary