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• Megillah 6b teaches that if a person says "I labored and I found" — believe him — encoding the spiritual principle that wisdom is concealed loot that must be actively excavated, exactly as Proverbs 2 describes: "Search for her as silver, seek her as hidden treasure."
• Berakhot 17a records Rav's prayer that the World to Come consist of Tzaddikim crowned with their diadems in the radiance of the Shekhinah — the "straight paths" of Proverbs 2 are reconnaissance routes through hostile territory that lead to that radiance, guarded against the Sitra Achra's misinformation at each bend.
• Sotah 3b states that a person does not sin unless a spirit of folly (ruach shtut) enters him — Proverbs 2's "strange woman" as seductress is identified with this implanted spirit: the Sitra Achra does not convince through reason but through the injection of a temporary insanity into the soul.
• Avodah Zarah 17a records the deathbed of Elazar ben Dordia who spent his life with harlots and in one hour of weeping reclaimed his soul — Proverbs 2's promise that wisdom "saves you from the strange woman" is therefore not about permanent immunity but about the emergency egress wisdom provides even from deep capture.
• Chagigah 14b opens with the four who entered Pardes (the Orchard of mystical knowledge) — Proverbs 2's instruction to "understand wisdom" is the pre-mission briefing: without proper initiation into the intelligence network of Torah, the Sitra Achra weaponizes mystical incursion itself, as it did against Ben Azzai and Ben Zoma.