Proverbs 22:17 Cross References - Leeser

¹⁷ Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge.

¹² Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom.

³ To accept the instruction of intelligence, righteousness, and justice, and equity;

² To let thy ear listen unto wisdom: if thou wouldst incline thy heart to understanding. ³ For if thou wilt call after intelligence; if after understanding thou wilt lift up thy voice; ⁴ If thou wilt seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: ⁵ Then wilt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and the knowledge of God wilt thou find.

¹ My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart keep my commandments;

⁴ And he instructed me, and said unto me, Let thy heart grasp firmly my words: observe my commandments and live. ⁵ Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding: forget not, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she will watch over thee: love her, and she will keep thee. ⁷ The beginning of wisdom is, Acquire wisdom: and with all thy acquisition acquire understanding. ⁸ Hold her in high esteem, and she will exalt thee: she will bring thee to honor, when thou embracest her.

¹ My son, attend unto my wisdom; to my understanding incline thou thy ear: ² That thou mayest observe discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

³³ Hear correction, and be wise, and reject it not. ³⁴ Happy is the man that hearkeneth unto me, watching day by day at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

¹² Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thy ears to the sayings of knowledge.

²⁵ Then I turned myself about together with my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and experience, and to know the wickedness of folly, and the foolishness of madness.

⁹ All this have I seen, and directed my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when one man ruleth over another to his own injury.

¹⁶ When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the employment that is done upon the earth, how even neither by day nor by night sleep is seen in the eyes of some men:

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the promised mercies of David, which are sure.