Proverbs 22:17
Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
Leeser Tanakh
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 90:12Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom.
Proverbs 2:2To let thy ear listen unto wisdom: [if] thou wouldst incline thy heart to understanding.
Proverbs 4:4And he instructed me, and said unto me, Let thy heart grasp firmly my words: observe my commandments and live.
Proverbs 8:33Hear correction, and be wise, and reject it not.
Ecclesiastes 7:25Then I turned myself about together with my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and experience, and to know the wickedness of folly, and the foolishness of madness.
Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the employment that is done upon the earth, how even neither by day nor by night sleep is seen in the eyes of some men:
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 →