Proverbs 20:15
There is gold, and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
In Context
14It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
16Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge for foreigners.
Cross References
Job 28:18No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Proverbs 3:15She is more precious than rubies, and none of the things thou can desire are to be compared to her.
Proverbs 8:10Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 10:20The tongue of a righteous man is choice silver. The heart of the wicked is little worth.
Proverbs 15:23A man has joy in the answer of his mouth, and a word in due season, how good it is!
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:15
14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. See here 1. What arts men use to get a good bargain and to buy cheap. They not only cheapen carelessly, as if they had no need, no mind for the commodity, when perhaps they cannot go without it (there may be prudence in that), but they vilify and run down that which yet they know to be of value; they cry, " It is naught, it is naught; it has this and the other fault, or perhaps may have; it is not good of the sort; and… Read the whole commentary →