Proverbs 16:16-18
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 How much better to get wisdom than gold!
To get understanding is preferable to silver.[a](A)
17 The path of the upright leads away from misfortune;
those who attend to their way guard their lives.[b]
18 Pride goes before disaster,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Footnotes
- 16:16 The point of comparison is the superiority of the pursuit of wisdom and gold, not the relative merits of wealth and wisdom.
- 16:17 In the metaphor of the two ways, the way of the righteous is protected and the way of the wicked is unprotected. Since the path of the righteous leads therefore away from trouble, one’s task is to stay on it, to “attend to” it.
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