Талмуд к Мишлей 3:8

‘But the Torah [is acquired in the form of] forty-eight’: Great is the Torah for it gives life. What is the force of the additional verse?¹⁸⁵Prov. 3, 8, It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones, quoted in the Baraitha. Should you say that [the Torah gives] health to a man’s flesh but not to his bones, come and hear: [It is written,] and marrow to thy bones. And should you say that [it gives health] to the bones but not to the heart, come and hear: And all her paths are peace. And should you say that [it gives] peace but not life, come and hear: She is a tree of life. And should you say that [it gives] life but not honour, come and hear: For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head. And should you say that it brings honour but not protection, come and hear: A crown of glory will she bestow on thee.¹⁸⁶ibid IV, 9. The Heb. for bestow also means ‘to shield’. And should you say that [it gives] protection in this world but its reward is lost in the World to Come, come and hear: Length of days is in her right hand,¹⁸⁷ibid. III, 16. and it declares, O Lord, for evermore.¹⁸⁸Ps. 93, 5. And should you say that it mentions days but not years, come and hear: For length of days and years of life … will they add to thee.¹⁸⁹Prov. 3, 2.
‘R. Simeon b. Judah said in the name of R. Simeon [b. Yoḥai].’ The question was asked: To which [verses] does R. Simeon’s statement make reference? Is it to the verses preceding [the earlier part] ending with and years of life, etc.? Or is it perhaps to those which he was about to cite [in the Baraitha]? Since he enumerates seven things¹⁹⁰Counting ‘old age’ and ‘hoariness’ as one. it is proved that he refers to the earlier part because there also there are seven.
The question was asked: What is the meaning of And before His elders shall be Glory?¹⁹¹Isa. 24, 23. Come and hear: Rab said: Who has a share in the World to Come? He to whom can be applied, And before His elders shall be Glory.¹⁹²Interpreting zaḳen, ‘elder’, in the Rabbinic sense of ‘one who has acquired [ḳanah] wisdom’. Cf. Shab. 153a (Sonc. ed., p. 781).