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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
אם-תבקשנה ככסף וכמטמונים תחפשנה
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
Am-tbqSHnh kksp vkmtmvnym tKHpSHnh

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
si quaesieris eam quasi pecuniam et sicut thesauros effoderis illam

King James Variants
American King James Version   
If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
King James 2000 (out of print)   
If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Authorized (King James) Version   
if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
New King James Version   
If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;
21st Century King James Version   
if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasure,

Other translations
American Standard Version   
If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
And you will seek it as silver and you will search it out as treasure
Darby Bible Translation   
if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures:
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
If thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
God's Word   
if you search for wisdom as if it were money and hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure,
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,
International Standard Version   
if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,
NET Bible   
if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,
New American Standard Bible   
If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;
New International Version   
and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
New Living Translation   
Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures.
Webster's Bible Translation   
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
The World English Bible   
If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
EasyEnglish Bible   
Look for wisdom as carefully as you would look for silver, or valuable jewels.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
New Life Version   
if you look for her as silver, and look for her as hidden riches;
The Voice Bible   
If you sift through the clamor of everything around you to seek her like some precious prize, to search for her like buried treasure;
Living Bible   
Yes, if you want better insight and discernment, and are searching for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure, then wisdom will be given you and knowledge of God himself; you will soon learn the importance of reverence for the Lord and of trusting him.
New Catholic Bible   
if you seek for it as for silver and search for it as for buried treasure,
Legacy Standard Bible   
If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;
Jubilee Bible 2000   
if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures,
Christian Standard Bible   
if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,
Amplified Bible © 1954   
If you seek [Wisdom] as for silver and search for skillful and godly Wisdom as for hidden treasures,
New Century Version   
Search for it like silver, and hunt for it like hidden treasure.
The Message   
Good friend, take to heart what I’m telling you; collect my counsels and guard them with your life. Tune your ears to the world of Wisdom; set your heart on a life of Understanding. That’s right—if you make Insight your priority, and won’t take no for an answer, Searching for it like a prospector panning for gold, like an adventurer on a treasure hunt, Believe me, before you know it Fear-of-God will be yours; you’ll have come upon the Knowledge of God.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
if you search for it like silver, if you hunt for it like hidden treasure,
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures—
Good News Translation®   
Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure.
Wycliffe Bible   
if thou seekest it as money, and diggest it out as treasures;
Contemporary English Version   
Search for wisdom as you would search for silver or hidden treasure.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures—
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures—
Common English Bible © 2011   
Seek it like silver; search for it like hidden treasure.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
If you seek skillful and godly wisdom as you would silver And search for her as you would hidden treasures;
English Standard Version Anglicised   
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out,
New American Standard Bible   
If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;
The Expanded Bible   
·Search [Seek] for it like silver, and ·hunt [search] for it like hidden treasure.
Tree of Life Version   
if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures,
Revised Standard Version   
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;
New International Reader's Version   
Look for it as you would look for silver. Search for it as you would search for hidden treasure.
BRG Bible   
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Complete Jewish Bible   
if you seek it as you would silver and search for it as for hidden treasure —
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
if you seek it like silver, and search for it as for hidden treasures—
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
If thou seekest her as kesef, and searchest for her as for matmonim (hidden treasures);
Names of God Bible   
if you search for wisdom as if it were money and hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure,
Modern English Version   
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,
Easy-to-Read Version   
Look for wisdom like silver. Search for it like hidden treasure.
International Children’s Bible   
Search for it as you would for silver. Hunt for it like hidden treasure.
Lexham English Bible   
if you seek her like silver and search her out like treasure,
New International Version - UK   
and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,