Proverbs 16:16
Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
15In the cheerfulness of the king's countenance is life: and his clemency is like the latter rain.
17The path of the just departeth from evils: he that keepeth his soul keepeth his way.
Cross References
Job 28:13Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the land of them that live in delights.
Proverbs 2:4If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
Proverbs 3:14The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chiefest and purest gold:
Proverbs 4:7The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.
Proverbs 8:19For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.
Matthew 16:26For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:15-16
14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. 15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain. These two verses show the power of kings, which is every where great, but was especially so in those eastern countries, where they were absolute and arbitrary. Whom they would they slew and whom they would they kept alive. Their will was a law. We have reason to bless God for the happy constitution of the government we live under, which… Read the whole commentary →