Proverbs 8:19
in Proverbs 8My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.
KJV
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
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This verse in Proverbs 8
Commentary
6 notes on this verseMy fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold,.... This is said in allusion to the fruit that grows on trees, Wisdom, or Christ, being a tree of life; see Gill on Pro 3:18; and so he is compared to other trees, Son 2:
This site's exposition
those that seek me early shall find me
on Proverbs 8:17-21
I love them that love me is wisdom's covenant shape: she is not neutral information but a person-like voice that answers seeking with finding. The riches she offers are qualified twice, durable riches and righteousness, fruit better than fine gold, which the bench reads against the book's own warnings about wealth that takes wings (23:5). That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance closes the offer in inheritance language, the family word rather than the market word.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
BonaventureCollations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 18 · Written in the 13th century.
proposed
The fruit of wisdom is mentioned in Proverbs: "Her fruit is better than the choicest and the purest gold." Hence this fruit comes from Christ in a threefold manner, because Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Because He is Jesus, from Him comes the …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The redeemer is the eternal Word and wisdom, the Logos. He is the Wisdom that speaks to the children of men in the former part of the chapter. All divine revelation passes through his hand, and centres in him; but of him as the personal Wisdom, the second person in the Godhead, in the judgment of many of the ancients, Solomon here speaks,
And the Son also did himself rejoice before him in the beauty and harmony of the whole creation, Ps. civ. Of the satisfaction they had in each other, with reference to the great work of man's redemption. The Father delighted in the Son, as Mediator between him and man, was well-pleased with what he proposed ( Matt. iii.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Gold - The “choice, fine gold” of margin reference. The “fine gold” in the second clause is a different word, and perhaps represents gold extracted from the ore.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ט֣וֹב | tov | [is] good | H2896 → | 538 times |
| פִּ֭רְיִי | piryi | fruit my | H6529 → | 119 times |
| מֵחָר֣וּץ | mecharutz | more than gold | H2742 → | 19 times |
| וּמִפָּ֑ז | umipaz | and more than pure gold | H6337 → | |
| וּ֝תְבוּאָתִ֗י | utevuati | and gain my | H8393 → | 42 times |
| מִכֶּ֥סֶף | mikesef | more than silver | H3701 → | 403 times |
| נִבְחָֽר׃ | nivchar | chosen | H977 → | 171 times |
ט֣וֹב[is] good
tovH2896 →538 times
פִּ֭רְיִיfruit my
piryiH6529 →119 times
מֵחָר֣וּץmore than gold
mecharutzH2742 →19 times
וּמִפָּ֑זand more than pure gold
umipazH6337 →
וּ֝תְבוּאָתִ֗יand gain my
utevuatiH8393 →42 times
מִכֶּ֥סֶףmore than silver
mikesefH3701 →403 times
נִבְחָֽר׃chosen
nivcharH977 →171 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 8:10Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
it leads to
- Proverbs 2:4–5
if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
- Psalms 119:127
Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.
- Psalms 119:72
The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
- Proverbs 3:13–15
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,
- Proverbs 23:23
Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
- Proverbs 2:4–5
Through
Proverbs 3:14for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.
it leads to
- Proverbs 16:16
How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
- Job 28:13–19
No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
- Proverbs 16:16
Through
Ecclesiastes 7:12For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
it leads to
- Proverbs 8:35
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
- Proverbs 8:35
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About Proverbs
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bonaventure, Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 18; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.