Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God. For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
⛓ Read Proverbs 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden in Christ closely tracks Proverbs 2, where one cries out for understanding and searches for it as for hidden treasures, and the LORD gives wisdom and knowledge. Volume is high (shared lexis: wisdom, knowledge, hidden, treasure) and the coherence with Paul's epistemology of revelation is strong.
High confidence'If you call out for insight... then you will find the knowledge of God, for the Lord gives wisdom.' James's 'if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives' directly echoes the Proverbial promise that God is the giver of wisdom to those who seek it.
High confidence