English Standard Version
Proverbs 23:12
12Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- New International Version (NIV)Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to words of knowledge.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Commit yourself to instruction; listen carefully to words of knowledge.
Context of Proverbs 23:12
10Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless, 11for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you. Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge. 13Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. 14If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
Read all of Proverbs 23Proverbs 23:12 word by word
הָבִ֣יאָה לַמּוּסָ֣ר לִבֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝אָזְנֶ֗ךָ לְאִמְרֵי־דָֽעַת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 23:12
- Proverbs 23:19Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.
- Proverbs 2:2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
- Proverbs 5:1My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
- Proverbs 22:17Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge,
- Ezekiel 33:31And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.
- Matthew 13:52And he said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old."
- James 1:21Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Commentaries on Proverbs 23:12
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-16Verses 12-16 Here is a parent instructing his child to give his mind to the Scriptures. Here is a parent correcting his child: accompanied with prayer, and blessed of God, it may prove a means of preventing his destruction. Here is a parent encouraging his child, telling him what would be for his good. And what a comfort it would be, if herein he answered his expectation!Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12Saying 11: Listen carefully: Learning helps you improve (see Proverbs 10:17; 13:1, 10; 15:24, 31–32; 17:10; 19:24).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. Here begins another series of precepts.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 23
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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