A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.
NIV
A capable, intelligent, and virtuous woman--who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls. [Prov. 12:4; 18:22; 19:14.]AMP
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
KJV
For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
NIV
For skillful and godly Wisdom is better than rubies or pearls, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. [Job 28:15; Ps. 19:10; 119:127.]AMP
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
KJV
Their princes were brighter than snow and whiter than milk, their bodies more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like lapis lazuli.
NIV
[In physical appearance] her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; they were more ruddy in body than rubies or corals, their shapely figures [suggested a carefully cut] sapphire.
AMP
Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
KJV
Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.
NIV
There is gold, and a multitude of pearls, but the lips of knowledge are a vase of preciousness [the most precious of all]. [Job 28:12, 16-19; Prov. 3:15; 8:11.]AMP
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
KJV
"Aram did business with you because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple fabric, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies for your merchandise."
NIV
Aram (Syria or Mesopotamia) and Edom traded with you because of the multitude of the wares of your making. They exchanged for your merchandise emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and agate or rubies.
AMP
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
KJV
I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.
NIV
And I will make your windows and pinnacles of [sparkling] agates or rubies, and your gates of [shining] carbuncles, and all your walls [of your enclosures] of precious stones. [Rev. 21:19-21.]AMP
And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
KJV
