Proverbs 4:10

4:10 Listen, my child, ¹  and accept my words,

so that ²  the years of your life will be many. ³ 

Proverbs 8:19

8:19 My fruit is better than the purest gold, ⁴ 

and what I produce ⁵  is better than choice silver.

[4:10]  ¹ tn Heb “my son” (likewise in v. 20).

[4:10]  ² tn The vav prefixed to the imperfect verb follows an imperative; this volitive sequence depicts purpose/result.

[4:10]  ³ tn Heb “and the years of life will be many for you.”

[8:19]  ⁴ tn The two synonyms, “than gold, than fine gold” probably form a hendiadys here to express “the very finest gold.”

[8:19]  ⁵ 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.