Proverbs 2:4 (BSB)

if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,

From Proverbs 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 2:4

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 2:1-9: Job had asked, long before this, Where shall wisdom be found? Whence cometh wisdom? (Job 28:12, Job 28:20) and he had given this general answer (v. 23), God knoweth the place of it; but Solomon here goes further, and tells us both where we may find it and how we may get it. We are here told, I. What means we must use that we may obtain wisdom. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 2:4: If thou seekest her as silver,.... That is, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding; which all signify and relate unto one and the same thing, expressed here by "her": namely, the doctrine of wisdom, or Christ; that is, the Gospel, and a spiritual and experimental knowledge and understanding of it, and the truths thereof; which are as desirable and valuable as silver, and more so; and which...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 2:4: There must be earnest prayer and effort.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 2:4: If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures; (d) Showing that no labour must be spared.