Verse List for PROV 2:4

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) if you go after it as if it’s silver ⇔ ≈ and search for it as if it was hidden treasure,

OET-LV If you_will _seek _it like_silver and_like _(the)_treasures you_will _search _for _it.

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

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

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

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB 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 • if you seek her like silver
• and search her out like treasure ,[fn]

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

Moff seeking her out as silver ⇔  and searching for her like treasure;

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,

Drby 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;
(If thou/you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;)

SLT If thou wilt seek her as silver, and dig for her as hidden treasure;

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

KJB-1769 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
(If thou/you seekest/seek her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;)

KJB-1611 If thou seekest her as siluer, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures:
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

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

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

Cvdl yf thou sekest after her as after money, and dyggest for her as for treasure:
(if thou/you seekest/seek after her as after money, and diggest/dig for her as for treasure:)

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

Luth so du sie suchest wie Silber und forschest sie wie die Schätze,
(so you(sg) they/she/them you_are_looking as/like silver(n) and forschest they/she/them as/like the treasures(n),)

ClVg si quæsieris eam quasi pecuniam, et sicut thesauros effoderis illam:[fn]
(when/but_if whichsieris her as_if money, and like treasures effoderis her:)

UHB אִם־תְּבַקְשֶׁ֥⁠נָּה כַ⁠כָּ֑סֶף וְֽ⁠כַ⁠מַּטְמוֹנִ֥ים תַּחְפְּשֶֽׂ⁠נָּה׃ ‡

BrLXX καὶ ἐὰν ζητήσῃς αὐτὴν ὡς ἀργύριον, καὶ ὡς θησευροὺς ἐξεραυνήσῃς αὐτήν·

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