Proverbs 8:11 (BSB)

For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.

From Proverbs 8. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 8:11

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 8:1-11: 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.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 8:11: For wisdom is better than rubies,.... A sort of precious stones: or, "than precious stones" (z) in general; so the Targum and Septuagint, Arabic and Syriac versions; even than all of them, as the Vulgate Latin version; or, than "pearls" (a), or "carbuncles" (b): there are none equal to it, nor is it to be procured by them; see Job 28:16; and all the things...
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 8:10-12: Pro 8:10-12 Her self-commendation is continued in the resumed address: 10 “Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold! 11 For wisdom is better than corals, And all precious jewels do not equal her. 12 I, Wisdom, inhabit prudence, And the knowledge of right counsels is attainable by me.” Instead of ולא־כּסף influenced by קחוּ, is ואל־כסף with תּקחוּ to be supplied; besides, with most Codd.