Proverbs 2:2 - King James 2000

So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply 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

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Proverbs 18:1

A man, having separated himself, seeks his own desire, and rages against all sound wisdom.

Proverbs 2:3

Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Proverbs 23:12

Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Proverbs 4:1

Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Proverbs 4:20

My son, attend to my words; incline your ear unto my sayings.

Proverbs 6:32

But whosoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding: he that does it destroys his own soul.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is one who neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes:)

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Matthew 13:9

Who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Acts 17:11

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.