Proverbs 2:2 - English Standard Version 2016

making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining 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:

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Psalm 90:12

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

Proverbs 18:1

Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.

Proverbs 2:3

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

Proverbs 23:12

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

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 lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

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

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.

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.

Matthew 13:9

He who has ears, let him hear.”

Acts 17:11

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