8:19 My fruit is better than the purest gold, 1
and what I produce 2 is better than choice silver.
8:20 I walk in the path of righteousness,
in the pathway of justice,
1 tn The two synonyms, “than gold, than fine gold” probably form a hendiadys here to express “the very finest gold.”
2 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.