Proverbs 20:15

There's gold and plenty of expensive gemstones, but talking sense is a more valuable jewel.

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In The King James Version

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

In Context

14“It's really rubbish,” says the one buying, but afterwards goes and boasts to others about making a good deal.

16If someone guarantees a stranger's debt with their cloak, be sure to take it! Make sure you have whatever is pledged to foreigners!

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Cross References

Job 28:18Coral and crystal are not worth mentioning; the price of wisdom is far above rubies.

Proverbs 3:15She is more valuable than rubies—everything you could ever want just doesn't compare!

Proverbs 8:10Choose my instruction over silver; choose knowledge over pure gold.

Proverbs 10:20What good people say is like the best silver, but the mind of the wicked isn't worth much.

Proverbs 15:23A good answer makes people happy—it's great to say the right thing at the right moment!

Proverbs 16:21If you think wisely you'll be called perceptive; if you speak pleasantly you'll be persuasive.

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 →

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