choice

Now that which was prepared for me daily, was one oxe, and sixe choice sheepe; also foules were prepared for mee, and once in ten dayes, store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the gouernour, because the bondage was heauy vpon this people.

Receiue my instruction, and not siluer: and knowledge rather then choise gold.

My fruite is better then gold, yea then fine gold, and my reuenue then choise siluer.

1611 marginal noteProu.3.14.

The tongue of the iust is as choise siluer: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

My doue, my vndefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her: The daughters sawe her, and blessed her; yea the Queenes and the concubins, and they praysed her.

By thy seruants hast thou reproched the LORD, and hast said, By the multitude of my charets am I come vp to the height of the mountaines, to the sides of Lebanon, and I wil cut downe the tall cedars thereof, and the choise firre trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forrest of his Carmel.

1611 marginal noteHeb. by the hand of thy seruants.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the tallnesse of the cedars thereof, and the choise of the firre trees thereof.

1611 marginal noteOr, the forrest and his fruitfull field.

And I will prepare destroyers against thee, euery one with his weapons, and they shall cut downe thy choise cedars, and cast them into the fire.

Gather the pieces thereof into it, euen euery good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

Take the choice of the flocke, and burne also the bones vnder it, and make it boyle well, and let him seethe the bones of it therein.

1611 marginal noteOr, heape.

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him downe to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drinke water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.