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Proverbs 3:14 · World English Bible

Proverbs 3:14 Meaning For Her Good Profit Is Better Than

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

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What does Proverbs 3:14 mean?

The ego measures worth by what can be gathered and kept, and it never rests, for silver and gold can always be lost or increased and so must be endlessly defended. That whole economy is the mind trading in scarcity, certain it does not yet have enough to be safe.

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The ego measures worth by what can be gathered and kept, and it never rests, for silver and gold can always be lost or increased and so must be endlessly defended. That whole economy is the mind trading in scarcity, certain it does not yet have enough to be safe.

What love offers cannot be counted this way. The gain of true seeing is not a possession added to the self but the release of the fear that made the self feel poor. A mind that trades the ego's frantic getting for love's quiet certainty finds it has exchanged a fortune of worry for a peace that no loss can touch.

Silver: the worth the ego gathers and guards, a treasure that can always be lost and so is never enough to bring peace Fine gold: the highest prize fear knows how to seek, a gain that must be endlessly defended and can never make a mind feel safe

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Live Proverbs 3:14 today

  1. When you check a balance, a follower count, or a sales number today, pause before the next thought. Ask what that number was supposed to protect you from, and whether it ever has.
  2. Give something away without balancing the books, time, credit for an idea, the better seat. See how quickly the small loss stops mattering.
  3. If a bill, a budget talk, or a job worry hits today, feel the fear first and name it as fear, not as math. Then do the math calmly, which is the only way it ever gets done well.

What am I so busy defending that I never get to enjoy it?

The same truth in other traditions

Tao Te Ching 44

Fame and money cost more than people think, and clinging tightly means losing heavily. Whoever knows when they have enough is never actually poor.

Stoicism · Seneca

It is not the person with little who is poor but the person who wants more. Wealth that has to be guarded has already taken something from you.

Sufism · Rumi

You spend your life protecting a treasure outside you while the real one sits unguarded inside. Stop defending and you find you were already rich.

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