Proverbs 8:19 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 8:19

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

KJV

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ASV

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.

WEB

My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.

YLT

Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.

DBT

My fruit is better than fine gold, yea, than pure gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Cross-references

10 verses on the floor

Proverbs 16:16
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Proverbs 3:14
For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Psalms 119:72
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Proverbs 10:20
The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
Psalms 19:10
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

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,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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