Verse (Click for Chapter) 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Blessings of Wisdom13Blessed 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! Jump to Previous Better Bright Fine Gain Gaining Getting Gold Good Greater Increase Merchandise Profit Profitable Returns Revenue Silver Thereof Trading YieldsJump to Next Better Bright Fine Gain Gaining Getting Gold Good Greater Increase Merchandise Profit Profitable Returns Revenue Silver Thereof Trading YieldsProverbs 3 1. various exhortations13. 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). Hebrew forכִּ֤י (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 Links Proverbs 3:14 NIVProverbs 3:14 NLT Proverbs 3:14 ESV Proverbs 3:14 NASB Proverbs 3:14 KJV Proverbs 3:14 BibleApps.com Proverbs 3:14 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 3:14 Chinese Bible Proverbs 3:14 French Bible Proverbs 3:14 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 3:14 For her good profit is better than (Prov. 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