Proverbs 2:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:

Proverbs 2:2 Cross References

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

Proverbs 18:1

The one who lives alone is self-indulgent, showing contempt for all sound judgment.

Proverbs 2:3

if you indeed cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

Proverbs 23:12

Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 4:1

Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,

Proverbs 4:20

My child, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

Proverbs 6:32

But he who commits adultery has no sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

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.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

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,

Ecclesiastes 8:9

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.

Isaiah 55:3

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.

Matthew 13:9

If you have ears, hear!”

Acts 17:11

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.