Proverbs 8:19 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 8:19

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

BSB

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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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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

My 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:

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ט֣וֹב	Tov	[is] good	H2896 →
פִּ֭רְיִי	Pir.yi	fruit my	H6529 →
מֵחָר֣וּץ	me.cha.Rutz	more than gold	H2742 →
וּמִפָּ֑ז	u.mi.Paz	and more than pure gold	H6337 →
וּ֝תְבוּאָתִ֗י	u.te.vu.'a.Ti	and gain my	H8393 →
מִכֶּ֥סֶף	mi.Ke.sef	more than silver	H3701 →
נִבְחָֽר׃	niv.Char	chosen	H977 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 8:10
Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
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.
Through
Proverbs 3:14
for she is more profitable than silver, and her gain is better than fine gold.
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.
Through
Ecclesiastes 7:12
For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
leads to
- Proverbs 8:35
  For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Proverbs

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Proverbs