Riches and honour {are} with me; {yea}, durable riches and righteousness.

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

For the merchandise of it {is} better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of {thy} dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. {destroy...: Heb. beat thee down}

More to be desired {are they} than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. {the honeycomb: Heb. the dropping of honeycombs}

How much better {is it} to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also {there is that} neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

The law of thy mouth {is} better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed {for} the price thereof. {It...: Heb. Fine gold shall not be given for it}

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. {from prison...: or, away by distress and judgment: but, etc} {was he...: Heb. was the stroke upon him}

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. {air: or, heaven}

Buy the truth, and sell {it} not; {also} wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

I said, I shall not see the LORD, {even} the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

For the merchandise of it {is} better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

How much better {is it} to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

But I {was} like a lamb {or} an ox {that} is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, {saying}, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. {the tree...: Heb. the stalk with his bread}

Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. {terror: or, dismaying}

There {is} Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.