My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.
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My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.
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My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
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My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my produce than choice silver.
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to Proverbs 8:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 3:14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.
- Proverbs 10:20 The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
- Proverbs 8:10 Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 8:19 My fruit [is] better than gold, yea,…
Pro 8:19 My fruit [is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Ver. 19. My fruit is better than gold.] This wisdom is as those two golden pipes {Zec 4:12} through which the two olive branches do empty out of themselves the golden oils of all precious graces into the candlestick, the Church; hence grace is here called "fruits," and "pleasant fruits," {Son 4:16} and "fruits of the Spirit." {Gal 5:22}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine…
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold,.... This is said in allusion to the fruit that grows on trees, Wisdom, or Christ, being a tree of life; see Gill on Pro 3:18; and so he is compared to other trees, Sol 2:3. His "fruit" are the blessings of grace, such as redemption, reconciliation, pardon, justification, adoption, and eternal life; these are his by covenant, are procured by him, and are communicated from him; also the graces of his Spirit called fruits, as faith, hope, love, &c. of which he is the author and object; and even good works, the fruits of his grace; they are done in virtue of union to him, by his strength, and are directed to his glory: and all these, especially his grace and the blessings of it, are preferable to the finest gold; they are more valuable as to their intrinsic worth and excellency; they are more useful and profitable, being for the good and welfare of immortal souls; and they are more satisfying and more lasting, and which cannot be obtained with such a corruptible thing as gold is;
and my revenue than choice silver; as the former word refers to fruits that grow on trees, this to such as spring from seed sown in the earth; see Lev 23:39, where the same word is used as here, and is also rendered "revenue" in Jer 12:13; Christ himself is compared to seed, and so his word, Joh 12:24; and the fruit or revenue thereof is the same as before: or else the allusion is to the profit arising from riches, from estates, and their annual rent; or from money put out to use, or improved by commerce, and so signifies the same with the gain and merchandise of wisdom; see Gill on Pro 3:14. Aben Ezra construes the words thus, "my revenue is choicer than silver"; but our version is best.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Gold - The “choice, fine gold” of margin reference.…
Gold - The “choice, fine gold” of margin reference. The “fine gold” in the second clause is a different word, and perhaps represents gold extracted from the ore.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Stone. So the Septuagint translate paz, (Haydock) which designates…
Stone. So the Septuagint translate paz, (Haydock) which designates a more pure sort of gold, Genesis ii. 11. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Compare Pro 8:11; Pro 3:16).
(Compare Pro 8:11; Pro 3:16).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 19. Gold — חרוצ, rendered fine gold in Pro_3:14,…
19. Gold — חרוצ, rendered fine gold in Pro_3:14, where see note. פז, paz, refined gold.
My revenue — Not that which I receive, but which I bestow; the income which comes from practicing my precepts. Psa_19:10; Psa_21:3; Son_5:11.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. gold … silver] Comp. Pro_3:14.
19. gold … silver] Comp. Pro_3:14.
revenue] Or, increase, R.V. marg., preserving the figure of fruit in the parallel clause. γενήματα, LXX.; genimina, Vulg.
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Pro_8:22-31. Her august claims.
Wisdom appeals to us, not only upon the ground of what she bestows (Pro_8:10-21), but upon the ground of what she is (Pro_8:22-31).
On this Section see Introd. p. 31.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) My fruit. . . . my revenue.—i.e., the…
(19) My fruit. . . . my revenue.—i.e., the gain and profit which come from possessing me.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain My fruit is better than gold. We have had…
My fruit is better than gold. We have had Wisdom called "a tree of life", (Pro_3:18) and the gain from possessing her compared to gold and silver. (Pro_3:14) Fine gold (paz); Septuagint and Vulgate, "precious stone." The word signifies "purified gold gold from which all mixture or alloy has been separated. My revenue; Vulgate, genimina mea; Septuagint, gennhmata ; Hebrew, tebuah, "produce," "profits."
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 My fruit
My fruit
what wisdom produces or causes
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my produce
the benefit or gain that wisdom causes
I walk in the path of righteousness
Living the right way is spoken of as walking on the right road. AT: "I live right" or "I do what is right" (See: Metaphor)
in the midst of the paths of justice
This tells more of what is meant by "the path of righteousness." AT: "I do what is perfectly just" or "I only do what is just" (See: Metaphor)
treasuries
storehouses for valuable things. Wisdom is spoken of as a woman who fills the storehouses of her followers with valuable things. (See: Metaphor)
translationWords
fruit
gold
pure
silver
just
inherit
love
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