If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
⛓ 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.
Echo3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Seek wisdom 'as silver and search for it as hidden treasures' — the joyful search-and-sell-all for hidden treasure mirrors wisdom literature's treasure-hunt for the supreme good.
Medium confidenceSeeking wisdom 'as silver, and searching for it as for hidden treasure' parallels the diligent search for the lost silver drachma until found. The seek-until-found wisdom pattern coheres with the parable's diligence, but the link is thematic. Contested.
Low confidenceSeeking wisdom as for hidden treasure; the merchant's diligent seeking (v.45) parallels the wisdom-seeker's quest.
Low confidence