Proverbs 2:2 - King James 2000

² So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thine heart to understanding;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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)

² So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

Common English Bible

² Turn your ear toward wisdom, and stretch your mind toward understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order 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.