Proverbs 8:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 8:10 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 2:4-5
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; …
Psalms 119:72
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Psalms 119:127
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 3:13-15
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

The will of God revealed to us for our salvation is here largely represented to us as easy to be known and understood, that none may have an excuse for their ignorance or error, and as worthy to be embraced, that none may have an excuse for their carelessness and unbelief. I. The things revealed are easy to be known, for they belong to us and to our children (Deut. 29:29), and we need not soar up…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

10. not silver--preferable to it, so last clause implies comparison.