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Proverbs 20:15

Gold and precious stones seem valuable. They are beautiful and expensive. But many people own them. And these things are not very useful.

Knowledge is useful. Knowledge is more valuable than gold or precious stones. Knowledge is also rare. See Matthew 7:14.

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See also Proverbs 20:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 20:15. _THERE IS GOLD_] _Gold_ is valuable, _silver_ is valuable, and so are _jewels_; but the _teachings_ of _sound knowledge_ are more valuable than all....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A PRECIOUS JEWEL - literally, “A vessel of preciousness,” i. e., most precious of all are “the lips of knowledge.”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 20 PROVERBS AS TO PERSONAL CONDUCT Proverbs of warning and instructions as to personal conduct are found mostly in this chapter; a number of them are of special interest if applied to Solomon....

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thought. P...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _rubies_ The R.V. retains this word, but refers to Job 28:18, where it gives in the margin, or, _red coral_, or, _pearls_. See Proverbs 3:15, note....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 20:11-20 11. Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. 12. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even bot...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. THERE IS GOLD, AND A MULTITUDE OF RUBIES: BUT THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE (DISCREET GODLY SPEECH) (ARE) A PRECIO...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    20:15 Jewel. (c-17) Or 'vessel.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Read, 'There is gold and abundance of corals and precious vessels—wise lips are all these.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    RUBIES. — See above on Proverbs 3:15. LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE. — See above on Proverbs 18:4....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יֵ֣שׁ זָ֭הָב וְ רָב ־פְּנִינִ֑ים וּ כְלִ֥י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimpse of t...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SOBRIETY; INDUSTRY; HONESTY Proverbs 20:1-15 Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is entrenched, it mocks at...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Verse Proverbs 20:9. This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14. "It is bad, it is bad," is the descrip...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There is...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THERE IS GOLD, AND A MULTITUDE OF RUBIES,.... A man may have a large quantity of either, or of both of thorn, as some men have; for there is much of them in the world, not only in mines and quarries,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel. Ver. 15. _There is gold and a multitude of rubies._] Quintilian defines an orator, _Vir bonus dicendi perit...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _There is gold_, &c. Namely, in the world, in divers persons' hands, by whom it is much prized; _but the lips of knowledge_ Wise speeches, proceeding from a well-informed and upright mind, _are a prec...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    V. 15. THERE IS GOLD AND A MULTITUDE OF RUBIES, or pearls, such trinkets are found in abundance in the world; BUT THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE A PRECIOUS JEWEL, they are rare indeed in the world....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THERE IS GOLD, to wit, in the world, in divers men's hands, by whom it is highly prized. BUT THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE A PRECIOUS JEWEL; but wise speeches proceeding from an understanding or honest he...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 20:15 is H3426 gold H2091 multitude H7230 rubies H6443 lips H8193 knowledge H1847 precious H3366 jewel H36

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions regarding the ways of folly. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Here in this imperfect state, no person can claim to be sinless, but the just man, walking by the rule o...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 20:1. _Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging._ In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1. Cyrus, after notic...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _There is gold, and a multitude of rubies._ ON THE MORAL END OF BUSINESS Let me define my meaning in the use of this phrase--“the moral end of business.” It is not the end for which property should b...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:13 These proverbs all relate to wealth. Laziness leads to POVERTY (v. Proverbs 20:13). People will set a value on something as

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:15. Here Miller reads, _There is gold_, etc., in _the lips of knowledge_. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 20:14_ BARGAINING This proverb refers— I. TO A WORLD-WIDE MANIFE...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 20:1 WINE IS A MOCKER; or, scorner, the word (_luts_) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its influence. Thus...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Into chapter 20. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise (Proverbs 20:1). He will have more to say about wine as we move along in our study next week,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ecclesiastes 12:9; Ephesians 4:29; Job 28:12; Proverbs 10:20;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The lips — But wise speeches are of far greater worth....

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