Proverbs 8:18 {19}
Good News Translation
I have riches and honor to give, prosperity and success.

New Revised Standard Version
Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and prosperity.

Contemporary English Version
I can make you rich and famous, important and successful.

New American Bible
With me are riches and honor, wealth that endures, and righteousness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.

riches and honour

Proverbs 3:16 Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.

Proverbs 4:7-9 Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her. . . .

James 2:5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

durable

Psalm 36:6 Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

Ecclesiastes 5:14-16 For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want. . . .

Matthew 6:19,20 Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal. . . .

Luke 10:42 But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Luke 12:20,21,33 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? . . .

Luke 16:11,12 If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true? . . .

2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.

Ephesians 3:8 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ:

Philippians 4:19 And may my God supply all your want, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 6:17-19 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy) . . .

James 5:1-3 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold, fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

and righteousness

Proverbs 11:4 The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

Matthew 6:33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Philippians 3:8,9 Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ. . . .

Context
The Excellence of Wisdom
17With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice. 18For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.19I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,…
Cross References
Matthew 6:33
Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Psalm 112:3
Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth for ever and ever.

Proverbs 3:16
Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.

Proverbs 8:17
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