15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.


In Context

12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.

13 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

14 It is naught, it is naught, said the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

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

16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Proverbs 20:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:15Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:15There is gold, and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:15There is gold, and abundance of rubies; But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a precious Jewel.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:15There is gold, and abundance of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, are lips of knowledge.