Mishle 8:11

11 For chochmah is tovah (better, more precious) than pearls; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

Mishle 8:11 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 8:11

For wisdom [is] better than rubies
A sort of precious stones: or, "than precious stones" ^F26 in general; so the Targum and Septuagint, Arabic and Syriac versions; even than all of them, as the Vulgate Latin version; or, than "pearls" ^F1, or "carbuncles" ^F2: there are none equal to it, nor is it to be procured by them; see ( Job 28:16-19 ) ;

and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it;
(See Gill on Proverbs 3:15).

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Mynynpm) "gemmis", Baynus; "prae gemmis politis", Schultens.
F1 "Margaritas", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis; "unionibus", Cocceius.
F2 "Carbunculis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Mishle 8:11 In-Context

9 They are all correct to him that discerneth, and yesharim (straight ones) to them that find da’as (knowledge).

10 Receive my musar, and not kesef; and da’as (knowledge) rather than choice gold.

11 For chochmah is tovah (better, more precious) than pearls; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

12 I, Chochmah, dwell with armah (prudence), and find out da’as (knowledge) of mezimot (discretions).

13 The Yirat Hashem is to hate rah; pride, and ga’on (arrogance), and the derech rah, and the perverse peh (mouth), do I hate.