So teach us to number our days, so that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Proverbs 2:2 - Tree of Life Version making your ear attentive to wisdom, inclining your heart to discernment, 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, so that we may get a heart of wisdom.
One who isolates oneself seeks his own desire; he defies all sound judgment.
yes, if you call out for insight, lifting up your voice for discernment,
Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention, to gain understanding.
He who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense. Whoever does so destroys himself.
So I turned my heart to understand, to search and seek out wisdom and an explanation of things and to know the stupidity of wickedness and madness of folly.
When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the activity that is done upon the earth (his eyes not seeing sleep either day or night),
I have seen all this while applying my mind to everything done under the sun: sometimes one person dominates another person to his own harm.
Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the trustworthy loyalty to David.
Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, because they received the message with goodwill, searching the Scriptures each day to see whether these things were true.