15 There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure.
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.
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Verse 15
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There is יֵ֣שׁ H3426 Adverb an abundance וְרָב־ H7230 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct of gold זָ֭הָב H2091 Noun - masculine singular [and] rubies פְּנִינִ֑ים H6443 Noun - feminine plural but lips שִׂפְתֵי־ H8193 Noun - feminine dual construct of knowledge דָֽעַת׃ H1847 Noun - feminine singular are a rare יְ֝קָ֗ר H3366 Noun - masculine singular treasure וּכְלִ֥י H3627 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct