Job 28:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Gold may not be given for it, or a weight of silver in payment for it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 16:16 : 16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.
  • Prov 3:13-15 : 13 Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge. 14 For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold. 15 She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.
  • Prov 8:10-11 : 10 Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold. 11 For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.
  • Prov 8:19 : 19 My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.
  • Job 28:18 : 18 There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.
  • Prov 8:17 : 17 Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 28:16-20
    5 verses
    90%

    16It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.

    17Gold and glass are not equal to it in price, and it may not be exchanged for jewels of the best gold.

    18There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.

    19The topaz of Ethiopia is not equal to it, and it may not be valued with the best gold.

    20From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • Job 28:12-14
    3 verses
    85%

    12But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

    13Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

    14The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.

  • Prov 3:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.

    15She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.

  • Job 28:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

    7No bird has knowledge of it, and the hawk's eye has never seen it.

  • Job 28:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.

    2Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

  • Job 36:18-19
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  • Prov 8:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.

    11For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

  • Eccl 5:10
    72%

    10When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

  • Prov 20:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

    15There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.

  • Prov 16:16
    70%

    16How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

  • Job 22:24
    70%

    24And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

  • Job 3:15
    70%

    15Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

  • Prov 2:4
    70%

    4If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

  • Jer 10:9
    70%

    9Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.

  • Ezek 7:19
    69%

    19They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.

  • Prov 17:16
    69%

    16How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

  • Eccl 1:15
    69%

    15That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

  • Ps 49:7-8
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    7Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

    8(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

  • Prov 8:19
    68%

    19My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.

  • Prov 6:35
    68%

    35He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.

  • Ezek 28:4
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    4By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:

  • Prov 22:1
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    1A good name is more to be desired than great wealth, and to be respected is better than silver and gold.

  • Prov 25:4
    68%

    4Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.

  • Prov 23:4
    68%

    4Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

  • Prov 31:10
    68%

    10Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.

  • 1 Chr 21:24
    68%

    24And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.

  • Job 15:29
    67%

    29He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

  • Gen 2:12
    67%

    12And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

  • Job 11:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

    9Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

  • 2 Chr 4:18
    67%

    18So Solomon made all these vessels, a very great store of them, and the weight of the brass used was not measured.

  • Isa 13:12
    67%

    12I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.

  • Ps 135:15
    67%

    15The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Prov 27:24
    67%

    24For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

  • Deut 33:15
    67%

    15And the chief things of the oldest mountains, and the good things of the eternal hills,

  • 1 Chr 28:14
    67%

    14Of gold, by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of different uses; and silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for vessels of different uses;