PRO 2:4 Parallel View

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ULT if you seek it like silver
 ⇔ and like hidden treasures you search for it,

UST Try to find what is wise, like you would try to find silver.
⇔ Indeed, look eagerly for it, like you would look for a treasure that someone has hidden.

BSB if you seek it like silver
⇔ and search it out like hidden treasure,

OEB seeking for her as if for silver,
⇔ and searching for her as if for treasure:

WEB if you seek her as silver,
⇔ and search for her as for hidden treasures;

NET if you seek it like silver,
 ⇔ and search for it like hidden treasure,

LSV If you seek her as silver,
And search for her as hid treasures,

FBV if you look for it as if it were silver and search for it as if it were hidden treasure;

T4T Search eagerly for wisdom, like you would search for silver,
⇔ like you would search for a treasure that someone has hidden.

LEB • and search her out[fn]

?:? Literally “like the treasures”

BBE If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

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JPS If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;

ASV If thou seek her as silver,
 ⇔ And search for her as for hid treasures:

DRA If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:

YLT If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

DBY if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures:

RV If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;

WBS If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

KJB If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
(If thou/you seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; )

BB If thou seekest for her as for siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures:
(If thou/you seekest for her as for silver, and searchest for her as for treasures:)

GNV If thou seekest her as siluer, and searchest for her as for treasures,
(If thou/you seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for treasures, )

CB yf thou sekest after her as after money, and dyggest for her as for treasure:
(yf thou/you sekest after her as after money, and dyggest for her as for treasure:)

WYC if thou sekist it as money, and diggist it out as tresours;
(if thou/you sekist it as money, and diggist it out as tresours;)

LUT so du sie suchest wie Silber und forschest sie wie die Schätze,
(so you they/she/them suchest like Silber and forschest they/she/them like the Schätze,)

CLV si quæsieris eam quasi pecuniam, et sicut thesauros effoderis illam:[fn]
(si quæsieris her as_if pecuniam, and sicut thesauros effoderis illam:)

2.4 Et sicut thesauros. Qui thesauros effodit, etc., usque ad nec quiescat, donec inveniat.

2.4 And sicut thesauros. Who thesauros effodit, etc., usque to but_not quiescat, until inveniat.

BRN and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

BrLXX καὶ ἐὰν ζητήσῃς αὐτὴν ὡς ἀργύριον, καὶ ὡς θησευροὺς ἐξεραυνήσῃς αὐτήν·
(kai ean zaʸtaʸsaʸs autaʸn hōs argurion, kai hōs thaʸseurous exeraunaʸsaʸs autaʸn; )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

אִם־תְּבַקְשֶׁ֥⁠נָּה כַ⁠כָּ֑סֶף וְֽ⁠כַ⁠מַּטְמוֹנִ֥ים תַּחְפְּשֶֽׂ⁠נָּה

if seek,it like_the,silver and,as_the,hidden_treasures search_for,it

These two phrases mean similar things. The author is using repetition to emphasize the idea that the phrases express. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could combine the phrases and express the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “if you diligently search for it like a valuable hidden treasure"

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

אִם־תְּבַקְשֶׁ֥⁠נָּה כַ⁠כָּ֑סֶף וְֽ⁠כַ⁠מַּטְמוֹנִ֥ים תַּחְפְּשֶֽׂ⁠נָּה

if seek,it like_the,silver and,as_the,hidden_treasures search_for,it

Solomon is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from the context if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “if you seek it as if it were silver and search for it as if it were hidden treasures” or “if you seek it as you would seek silver and search for it as you would search for hidden treasures”

Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns

תְּבַקְשֶׁ֥⁠נָּה & תַּחְפְּשֶֽׂ⁠נָּה

seek,it & search_for,it

In this verse, the pronoun it refers to wisdom. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “you seek wisdom … search for wisdom”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

אִם־תְּבַקְשֶׁ֥⁠נָּה כַ⁠כָּ֑סֶף וְֽ⁠כַ⁠מַּטְמוֹנִ֥ים תַּחְפְּשֶֽׂ⁠נָּה

if seek,it like_the,silver and,as_the,hidden_treasures search_for,it

Solomon is saying that wisdom is like silver and hidden treasures because those are items that people value greatly and work very hard to find. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “if you seek it diligently, like one seeks silver, and search for it diligently, like one searches for hidden treasures”

Parallel PRO 2:4