Psalms 119:72
The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
BSB
ASV
The law of thy mouth is better unto me Than thousands of gold and silver. י YODH.
KJV
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The law of thy mouth - The law which proceeds out of thy mouth, or which thou hast spoken. Is better unto me - The Hebrew is, “Good to me is the law of thy mouth above thousands of gold and silver.” Than thousands of gold and silver - Than any amount of wealth. It is to me the most valuable possession; that which I prize above all other things. Compare the notes at Psa 19:10.
The walk8
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
Psalms 19:10They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
leads to
How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,
Through
Proverbs 16:16How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
leads to
Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
