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Proverbs 23:12

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23:12Apply22 your heart to instruction

and your ears to the words of knowledge.

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Footnotes

  1. 22 Heb “bring.” The Hiphil imperative “come; enter” means “to apply the heart,” to use the heart or mind in the process. The same would be true in the second half: “to bring the ears” would mean to listen very carefully. Cf. “Pay attention.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Apply your heart to instruction

and your ear to words of knowledge.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Apply your heart to instruction

and your ears to words of knowledge.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Apply yourself to discipline

and listen to words of knowledge.

NLTNew Living Translation

Commit yourself to instruction;

listen carefully to words of knowledge.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Apply your heart to instruction,

and your ear to sayings of knowledge.

KJV 1900King James Version

Apply thine heart unto instruction,

And thine ears to the words of knowledge.