This passage encourages us to treasure God's wisdom (vv 1-4) and gives three benefits that come from treasuring his wisdom and the path it lays out. When you treasure the path of God’s wisdom, you experience protection on that path (vv 5-11), and that leads to deliverance from wrong paths (vv 12-19), and all of this leads to an enduring reward in the end (vv 20-22).