Proverbs 2:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thine heart to understanding; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding; Common English Bible Turn your ear toward wisdom, and stretch your mind toward understanding. Catholic Public Domain Version so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence: |
The one who lives alone is self-indulgent, showing contempt for all sound judgment.
if you indeed cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.
I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, how one’s eyes see sleep neither day nor night,
All this I observed, applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while one person exercises authority over another to the other’s hurt.
Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
These Jews were more receptive than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message very eagerly and examined the scriptures every day to see whether these things were so.