Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:15

The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures

The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

15There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure.

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Verse 15

Original words

There isיֵ֣שׁH3426Adverban abundanceוְרָב־H7230Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular constructof goldזָ֭הָבH2091Noun - masculine singular[and] rubiesפְּנִינִ֑יםH6443Noun - feminine pluralbut lipsשִׂפְתֵי־H8193Noun - feminine dual constructof knowledgeדָֽעַת׃H1847Noun - feminine singularare a rareיְ֝קָ֗רH3366Noun - masculine singulartreasureוּכְלִ֥יH3627Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct

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