Proverbs 2:2 - Revised Standard Version CI

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.

Proverbs 2:2 Cross References

Proverbs 23:12

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

Proverbs 18:1

He who is estranged seeks pretexts to break out against all sound judgment.

Psalm 90:12

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

Matthew 13:9

He who has ears, let him hear.”

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep;

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I observed while applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while man lords it over man to his hurt.

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 the wickedness of folly and the foolishness which is madness.

Acts 17:11

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Proverbs 2:3

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

Proverbs 4:1

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;

Proverbs 4:20

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

Proverbs 6:32

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