So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Proverbs 2:2 - King James Version - American Edition so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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: |
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
I applied mine 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:
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
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.
These were more noble than those in Thessaloni´ca, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.