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Proverbs 8:19-20

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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,

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[8:19]  1 tn The two synonyms, “than gold, than fine gold” probably form a hendiadys here to express “the very finest gold.”

[8:19]  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.



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