Proverbs 2:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² So that you make your ear attend to wisdom, Incline 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

Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom.

Proverbs 18:1

The separatist seeks his own desire; He breaks out against all sound wisdom.

Proverbs 2:3

For if you cry for discernment, Lift up your voice for understanding,

Proverbs 23:12

Bring your heart to discipline, And your ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 4:1

Children, listen to the discipline of a father, And give attention to know understanding;

Proverbs 4:20

My son, listen to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; He who does it destroys his own life.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I have turned round, even my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom and a conclusion, to know the wrongness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen; I applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which a man rules over a man for his evil.

Isaiah 55:3

“Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, so that your being lives. And let Me make an everlasting covenant with you, the trustworthy kindnesses of Dawiḏ

Matthew 13:9

“He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonike, who received the word with great eagerness, and searched the Scriptures daily, if these words were so.