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


In Context

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

13 Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

14 |It's no good, it's no good,| says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

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

16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

17 Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is 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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The American 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.