# She is a tree of life to those who take hold of it

The writer speaks of wisdom as if it were a tree that bears life-giving fruit and of a person who benefits from wisdom as if that person ate of the fruit. Alternate translation: "Wisdom is like a tree that sustains the life of those who eat of its fruit" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# a tree of life

"a tree that gives life" or "a tree whose fruit sustains life"

# those who hold on to it

"those who hold on to its fruit"