קָנָה

Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.

Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.

The LORD created me as His first course, before His works of old.

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.

How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.

Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?

The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.

He who acquires wisdom loves himself; one who safeguards understanding will find success.

“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.

Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

I acquired menservants and maidservants, and servants were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me,

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

…people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.

This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”

So I bought a loincloth in accordance with the word of the LORD, and I put it around my waist.

“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”

This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’

Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”

Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”

And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’

Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”

The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is upon the whole multitude.

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

…whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.

He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for I was purchased as a servant in my youth.’