More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
More to be desired ... fine gold. The law understood in its spiritual, reviving, and joy-bestowing power (Psalms 19:7-8) through Christ, our Law-fulfiller, is thus precious. The spiritual man has more pleasure in the precepts of the Lord than the carnal have in gain, or the appetite.
The honeycomb - Hebrew, 'the dropping of honeycombs;' the choicest distillings from the honeycomb (Proverbs 16:24).