For this reason I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold.

I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.

Neither gold nor crystal can be compared with it, nor can a vase of gold match its worth.

My fruit is better than the purest gold, and what I produce is better than choice silver.

His head is like the most pure gold. His hair is curly – black like a raven.

They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.

For you bring him rich blessings; you place a golden crown on his head.

His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

ב (Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold – Alas! – but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.