Proverbs Chapter 23 verse 23 Holy Bible
Buy the truth, and sell it not; `Yea', wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
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Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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Buy the truth, and don't sell it: Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
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Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - Buy the truth, and sell it not (comp. Proverbs 4:5, 7; Proverbs 16:16). Consider truth as a thing of the highest value, and spare no pains, cost, or sacrifice to obtain it, and, when gotten, keep it safe; do not barter it for earthly profit or the pleasures of sense; do not be reasoned out of it, or laughed out of it; "sell it not," do not part with it for any consideration. The second clause gives the sphere in which truth moves, or the three properties which appertain to it. These are: wisdom (chochmah), practical knowledge; instruction (musar), moral culture and discipline; and understanding (binah), the faculty of discernment (see notes on Proverbs 1:2). This verse is omitted in the chief manuscripts of the Septuagint.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Buy the truth, and sell it not.--The "truth" is here described under the three heads of wisdom, self-discipline, and understanding. (See above, on Proverbs 1:2.) All these are to be obtained from God (James 1:5), who gives to every man "liberally," "without money and without price" (Isaiah 55:1). (Comp. Revelation 3:18, and the "treasure" and "pearl of great price" of Matthew 13:44-46.)
