Proverbs 3:16 {17}
Good News Translation
Wisdom offers you long life, as well as wealth and honor.

New Revised Standard Version
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.

Contemporary English Version
In her right hand Wisdom holds a long life, and in her left hand are wealth and honor.

New American Bible
Long life is in her right hand, in her left are riches and honor;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.

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Proverbs 3:2 Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.

Proverbs 4:10 I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:

Psalm 21:4 He asked life of thee: and thou hast given him length of days for ever and ever.

Psalm 71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

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Proverbs 4:6-9 The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence. . . .

Proverbs 8:18-21 For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver. . . .

1 Kings 3:13 Yea, and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given thee; to wit, riches and glory: so that no one hath been like thee among the kings in all days heretofore.

Mark 10:30 Who shall not receive an hundred times as much, now in this time: houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting.

1 Corinthians 3:21-23 Let no man therefore glory in men. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.

Context
The Blessings of Wisdom
15Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and glory. 16Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.17She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed.…
Cross References
1 Kings 3:13
Yea, and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given thee; to wit, riches and glory: so that no one hath been like thee among the kings in all days heretofore.

Psalm 112:3
Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth for ever and ever.

Proverbs 3:2
Let not mercy aud truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.

Proverbs 8:18
For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.

Proverbs 9:11
If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

Proverbs 22:4
The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.

Proverbs 3:15
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