Proverbs 16:16 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁶ To haue wy?dome in possession is better then golde, and to get vnderstondynge, is more worth then syluer.

¹³ Verely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is, nether is she foude in the lode of the lyuynge. ¹⁴ The depe sayeth: she is not in me. The see sayeth: she is not with me. ¹⁵ She can not be gotten for the most fyne golde, nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny moneye. ¹⁶ No wedges of golde of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her. ¹⁷ No, nether golde ner Christall, nether swete odours ner golden plate. ¹⁸ There is nothinge so worthy, or so excellet, as once to be named vnto her: for parfecte wy?dome goeth farre beyonde the all. ¹⁹ The Topas that cometh out of Inde, maye in no wyse be lickened vnto her: yee no maner of apparell how pleasaunt and fayre so euer it be. ²⁰ From whece then commeth wy?dome? & where is the place of vnderstondinge? ²¹ She is hyd from the eyes of all men, yee & fro the foules of the ayre. ²² Destruccion & death saie: we haue herde tell of her wt oure eares. ²³ But God seyth hir waie, & knoweth hir place. ²⁴ For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder the heaue. ²⁵ When he weyed the wyndes, & measured ye waters: ²⁶ when he set the rayne in ordre, and gaue the mightie floudes a lawe: ²⁷ Then dyd he se her, the declared he her, prepared her and knewe her. ²⁸ And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the LORDE, is wy?dome: & to forsake euell, is vnderstondinge.

¹²⁷ For I loue thy comaundemetes aboue golde and precious stone.

¹⁵ Wy?dome is more worth the precious stones, & all ye thinges yt thou canst desyre, are not to be compared vnto her. ¹⁶ Vpon hir right hande is longe life, & vpon hir left hande is riches & honor. ¹⁷ Hir wayes are pleasaunt wayes, and all hir pathes are peaceable. ¹⁸ She is a tre of life to them that laye holde vpon her, and blessed are they that kepe her fast.

⁷ The chefe poynte of wy?dome is, that thou be wyllynge to opteyne wy?dome, and before all thy goodes to get the vnderstondynge.

¹⁰ Receaue my doctryne therfore and not syluer, & knowlege more then fyne golde. ¹¹ For wysdome is more worth then precious stones, yee all the thinges that thou cast desyre, are not to be compared vnto it.

¹⁹ My frute is better the golde & precious stone, & myne encrease more worth then fyne syluer.

¹² For wy?dome defendeth as well as moneye, and the excellent knowlege and wy?dome geueth life vnto him that hath it in possession.

²⁶ What helpeth it a man though he wanne the whole worlde, and yet suffred harme in his soule? Or what can a man geue, to redeme his soule withall?

²¹ Thus goeth it with him yt gathereth treasure for himself, and is not riche in God.