Proverbs 2:2 {3}
Good News Translation
Listen to what is wise and try to understand it.

New Revised Standard Version
making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

Contemporary English Version
Keep in tune with wisdom and think what it means to have common sense.

New American Bible
Turning your ear to wisdom, inclining your heart to understanding;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

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For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

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Proverbs 18:1 He that hath a mind to depart from a friend, seeketh occasions: he shall ever be subject to reproach.

Psalm 119:111,112 I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are the joy of my heart. . . .

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

Matthew 13:9 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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Psalm 22:17-21 They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me. . . .

Psalm 25:12 Who is the man that feareth the Lord? He hath appointed him a law in the way he hath chosen.

Psalm 90:12 Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 7:25 I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:

Ecclesiastes 8:9,16 All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. . . .

Acts 17:11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all eagerness, daily searching the scriptures, whether these things were so.

Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
1That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence. 2For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:3If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:…
Cross References
Proverbs 2:3
If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:

Proverbs 4:1
I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.

Proverbs 4:20
Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:

Proverbs 22:17
Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:

Proverbs 2:1
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