Proverbs 2:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

listening closely  to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding;

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King 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:

Proverbs 2:2 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 18:1

One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound wisdom.

Proverbs 2:3

furthermore, if you call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

Proverbs 23:12

Apply yourself to discipline and listen to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 4:1

Listen, sons, to a father’s discipline, and pay attention so that you may gain understanding,

Proverbs 4:20

My son, pay attention to my words; listen closely to my sayings.

Proverbs 6:32

The one who commits adultery  lacks sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom  and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom  and to observe the activity that is done on the earth (even though one’s eyes do not close in sleep day or night),

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, applying my mind to all the work that is done under the sun, at a time when one person has authority over another to his harm.

Isaiah 55:3

Pay attention and come to me; listen, so that you will live. I will make a permanent covenant with you on the basis of the faithful kindnesses of David.  ,

Matthew 13:9

Let anyone who has ears   listen.’

Acts 17:11

The people here were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, since they received the word with eagerness and examined  the Scriptures  daily to see if these things were so.