Proverbs 2:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

² So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thine heart to understanding;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Making your ear attentive to skillful and godly Wisdom and inclining and directing your heart and mind to understanding [applying all your powers to the quest for it];

American Standard Version (1901)

² So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

Common English Bible

² Turn your ear toward wisdom, and stretch your mind toward understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.

Proverbs 2:2 Cross References

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Proverbs 18:1

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Proverbs 2:3

Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Proverbs 23:12

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Proverbs 4:1

Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Proverbs 4:20

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Isaiah 55:3

Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Matthew 13:9

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.*

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.