Proverbs 20:15
There is golde, and a multitude of precious stones: but the lips of knowledge are a precious iewel.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 naught, it is naught, sayth the buyer: but when he is gone apart, he boasteth.
16Take his garment, that is suretie for a stranger, and a pledge of him for the stranger.
Cross References
Job 28:18No mention shall be made of coral, nor of the gabish: for wisedome is more precious then pearles.
Proverbs 3:15It is more precious then pearles: and all things that thou canst desire, are not to be compared vnto her.
Proverbs 8:10Receiue mine instruction, and not siluer, and knowledge rather then fine golde.
Proverbs 10:20The tongue of the iust man is as fined siluer: but the heart of the wicked is litle worth.
Proverbs 15:23A ioy commeth to a man by the answere of his mouth: and how good is a word in due season?
Proverbs 16:21The wise in heart shall bee called prudent: and the sweetenesse of the lippes shall increase doctrine.
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 →