Proverbs 8:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

Proverbs 8:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 4:5-7
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. …
Proverbs 3:14-15
For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. …
Proverbs 16:16
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Psalms 19:10
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Psalms 119:127
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

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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. 11)

11. (Compare Pr 3:14, 15).