¹⁵ Precious she `is' above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.

¹¹ For better `is' wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.

¹⁸ Corals and pearl are not remembered, The acquisition of wisdom `is' above rubies.

³ Because better `is' Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee.

²⁵ Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.

²⁶ Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion `is' God to the age.

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

¹⁰ A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies `is' her price.

⁴⁴ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.

⁴⁵ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls,

⁴⁶ who having found one pearl of great price, having gone away, hath sold all, as much as he had, and bought it.

¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time `are' not worthy `to be compared' with the glory about to be revealed in us;