English Standard Version
Proverbs 2:2
2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
- New International Version (NIV)turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—
- New King James Version (NKJV)So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;
- New Living Translation (NLT)Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding.
Context of Proverbs 2:2
1My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; 3yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 4if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
Read all of Proverbs 2Proverbs 2:2 word by word
לְהַקְשִׁ֣יב לַֽחָכְמָ֣ה אָזְנֶ֑ךָ תַּטֶּ֥ה לִ֝בְּךָ֗ לַתְּבוּנָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 2:2
- Proverbs 18:1Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.
- Psalms 119:111Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
- Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
- Matthew 13:9He who has ears, let him hear."
- Psalms 22:17I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
- Psalms 25:12Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
- Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
- Ecclesiastes 7:25I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
- Ecclesiastes 8:9All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.
- Acts 17:11Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Commentaries on Proverbs 2:2
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3wisdom...understanding...insight: These three words are skills needed to handle life's challenges.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-221-5. Diligence in hearing and praying for instruction must be used to secure the great principle of godliness, the fear of God. hide ... with thee--lay up in store (compare Pr 7:1).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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