Ecclesiastes 8:11

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

melior est enim sapientia cunctis pretiosissimis,
et omne desiderabile ei non potest comparari.]

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
melior est enim sapientia cunctis pretiosissimis, et omne desiderabile ei non potest comparari.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Melior est enim sapientia gemmis, et omne desiderabile ei non potest comparari".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wisdom: Proverbs 3:14, Proverbs 4:5-7, Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 20:15, Job 28:15-19, Psalms 19:10, Psalms 119:127, Matthew 16:26, Philippians 3:8, Philippians 3:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:17 - a sardius Deuteronomy 30:13 - go over the sea Job 28:13 - knoweth Psalms 32:8 - instruct Psalms 119:72 - better Psalms 119:103 - sweet Proverbs 1:3 - receive Proverbs 3:15 - more Proverbs 31:10 - her Matthew 13:45 - like Revelation 18:12 - merchandise

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For wisdom [is] better than rubies,.... A sort of precious stones: or, "than precious stones" z in general; so the Targum and Septuagint, Arabic and Syriac versions; even than all of them, as the Vulgate Latin version; or, than "pearls" a, or "carbuncles" b: there are none equal to it, nor is it to be procured by them; see

Job 28:16;

and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it;

Job 28:16- :.

z מפנינים "gemmis", Baynus; "prae gemmis politis", Schultens. a "Margaritas", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis; "unionibus", Cocceius. b "Carbunculis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 8:11. Wisdom is better than rubies — See on Proverbs 3:15.