Proverbs 22:17
Incline your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Then apply your heart to my doctrine.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 90:12With their hands, they will carry you, lest you hurt your foot against a stone.
Proverbs 2:2so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.
Proverbs 4:4And he taught me, and he also said: “Let your heart accept my words. Keep my precepts, and you shall live.
Proverbs 8:33Listen to discipline, and become wise, and do not be willing to cast it aside.
Ecclesiastes 7:25so much more than it was before. Wisdom is very profound, so who shall reveal her?
Ecclesiastes 8:16And I applied my heart, so that I might know wisdom, and so that I might understand a disturbance that turns upon the earth: it is a man, who takes no sleep with his eyes, day and night.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:17
16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. This shows what evil courses rich men sometimes take, by which, in the end, they will impoverish themselves and provoke God, notwithstanding their abundance, to bring them to want; they oppress the poor and give to the rich. 1. They will not in charity relieve the poor, but withhold from them, that by saving that which is really the best, but which they think the most needless part of their expenses,… Read the whole commentary →