Proverbs 3:14
New International Version
for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold.

New Living Translation
For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold.

English Standard Version
for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold.

Berean Standard Bible
for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.

King James Bible
For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

New King James Version
For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold.

New American Standard Bible
For her profit is better than the profit of silver, And her produce better than gold.

NASB 1995
For her profit is better than the profit of silver And her gain better than fine gold.

NASB 1977
For its profit is better than the profit of silver, And its gain than fine gold.

Legacy Standard Bible
For her profit is better than the profit of silver And her produce better than fine gold.

Amplified Bible
For wisdom’s profit is better than the profit of silver, And her gain is better than fine gold.

Christian Standard Bible
for she is more profitable than silver, and her revenue is better than gold.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for she is more profitable than silver, and her revenue is better than gold.

American Standard Version
For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, And the profit thereof than fine gold.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because its merchandise is better than the merchandise of silver, and the excellencies of its increase than refined gold,

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For it is better to traffic for her, than for treasures of gold and silver.

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom is worth more than silver; it makes you much richer than gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chiefest and purest gold:

English Revised Version
For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The profit [gained] from [wisdom]is greater than the profit [gained] from silver. Its yield is better than fine gold.

Good News Translation
There is more profit in it than there is in silver; it is worth more to you than gold.

International Standard Version
because her profit is better than the profit of silver, and her yield than fine gold.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, And the gain thereof than fine gold.

Literal Standard Version
For better [is] her merchandise | Than the merchandise of silver, | And than gold—her increase.

Majority Standard Bible
for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.

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

NET Bible
For her benefit is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than gold.

New Revised Standard Version
for her income is better than silver, and her revenue better than gold.

New Heart English Bible
For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain of it than fine gold.

World English Bible
For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

Young's Literal Translation
For better is her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold -- her increase.

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Context
The Blessings of Wisdom
13Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding, 14for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold. 15She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire compares with her.…

Cross References
Job 28:15
It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

Proverbs 2:4
if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,

Proverbs 8:10
Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

Proverbs 8:19
My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.

Proverbs 16:16
How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.


Treasury of Scripture

For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

Proverbs 2:4
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

Proverbs 8:10,11,19
Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold…

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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Proverbs 3
1. various exhortations
13. The gain of wisdom
27. Exhortation to goodness
33. the different state of the wicked and upright














Verse 14. - The merchandise (sakh'rah); Vulgate, acquisitio; LXX., ἐμπορεύεσθαι. The gain arising from trading in wisdom is better than that which arises from trading in silver. Sakh'rah is the gain or profit arising from merchandise, i.e. from trading. It denotes the act itself of gaining. The root sakrah, like the Greek ἐμπορευέσθαι, signifies "to go about for the sake of traffic," i.e. to trade. There may be an allusion here, as in Proverbs 2:4, to the new commerce (Plumptre). The gain thereof (t'vuathah); i.e. the gain existing in, and going along with, Wisdom herself; gain, therefore, in a different sense from that indicated in sakh'rah. Gesenius takes it as "gain resulting from Wisdom," as in Proverbs 8:19 and Isaiah 23:3. The word is used of the produce of the earth, the idea apparently embodied in the Vulgate fructus. In this case there may be a reference to ver. 18, where Wisdom is said to be a "tree of life." The LXX. omits the latter clause of this verse. The sense is, "The possession of Wisdom herself is better than fine gold." Fine gold (karuts); Vulgate, aurum purum; Syriac, aurum purissimum. Kharuts is the poetic word for gold, so called, either

(1) from its brilliancy, and then akin to the Greek χρυσός (Curtius); or

(2) from its being dug up, from the root kharats, "to cut into or dig up, to sharpen." It evidently means the finest and purest gold, and is here contrasted with silver (keseph). The word is translated "choice gold" in Proverbs 8:10; "gold" simply in Proverbs 16:16; "yellow gold" in Psalm 68:13; and "fine gold" in Zechariah 9:3. In the Version Junii et Tremellii it appears as effosum aurum, "gold dug up," i.e. gold in its native, unalloyed state. The Targum Jonathan understands it of "molten gold" (aurum conflatum).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
for
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

she is more
ט֣וֹב (ṭō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

profitable
סַ֭חְרָהּ (saḥ·rāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5504: Commerce, gain

than silver,
כָּ֑סֶף (kā·sep̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3701: Silver, money

and her gain [is better]
תְּבוּאָתָֽהּ׃ (tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 8393: Product, revenue

than fine gold.
וּ֝מֵחָר֗וּץ (ū·mê·ḥā·rūṣ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2742: Incised, incisive, a trench, gold, a threshing-sledge, determination, eager


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