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Proverbs 8:10

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8:10 Receive my instruction 1  rather than 2  silver,

and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 8:19

Context

8:19 My fruit is better than the purest gold, 3 

and what I produce 4  is better than choice silver.

1 tn Heb “discipline.” The term refers to instruction that trains with discipline (e.g., Prov 1:2).

2 tn Heb “and not” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in preference to.”

3 tn The two synonyms, “than gold, than fine gold” probably form a hendiadys here to express “the very finest gold.”

4 sn The language of the text with “fruit” and “ingathering” is the language of the harvest – what the crops yield. So the figure is hypocatastasis, comparing what wisdom produces to such crops.



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