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Proverbs 8:9 Catholic Bible: To those with insight, it is all clear; to the well-informed, it is all plain.
Proverbs 8:9 {10}
Good News Translation
To those with insight, it is all clear; to the well-informed, it is all plain.

New Revised Standard Version
They are all straight to one who understands and right to those who find knowledge.

Contemporary English Version
"If you have understanding, you will see that my words are just what you need.

New American Bible
All of them are straightforward to the intelligent, and right to those who attain knowledge.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.

Proverbs 14:6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.

Proverbs 15:14,24 The heart of the wise seeketh instruction: and the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. . . .

Proverbs 17:24 Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 18:1,2,15 He that hath a mind to depart from a friend, seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to reproach. . . .

Psalm 19:7,8 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. . . .

Psalm 25:12-14 Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath chosen. . . .

Psalm 119:98-100 Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me. . . .

Isaiah 35:8 And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.

Micah 2:7 Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.

Matthew 13:11,12 Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given. . . .

John 6:45 It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father and hath learned cometh forth me.

John 7:17 If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

1 Corinthians 2:14,15 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. . . .

James 1:5 But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.

Context
The Excellence of Wisdom
8They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge. 9Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.10For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.…
Cross References
Proverbs 3:13
The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chief and purest gold:

Proverbs 14:6
A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: the learning of the wise is easy.

Proverbs 8:8
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