Proverbs 2:2 - Modern English Version

² so that you incline your ear to 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 who separates himself seeks his own desire; he defies all sound judgment.

Proverbs 2:3

yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding,

Proverbs 23:12

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

Proverbs 4:1

Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father, and be attentive, that you may gain understanding,

Proverbs 4:20

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

Proverbs 6:32

But he who commits adultery lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

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

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to observe the business that is done on earth, while day and night there is no sleep for one’s eyes,

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man rules over others to their hurt.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to Me. Listen, so that your soul may live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Matthew 13:9

Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

Acts 17:11

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, daily examining the Scriptures, to find out if these things were so.