Proverbs 8:10

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

and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 8:19

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

and what I produce ⁴  is better than choice silver.

[8:10]  ¹ tn Heb “discipline.” The term refers to instruction that trains with discipline (e.g., Prov 1:2).

[8:10]  ² tn Heb “and not” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in preference to.”

[8:19]  ³ tn The two synonyms, “than gold, than fine gold” probably form a hendiadys here to express “the very finest gold.”

[8:19]  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.