Proverbs 22:17
Incline your ear, and hear words of the wise, || And set your heart to my knowledge,
Literal Standard 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
16He [who] is oppressing the poor to multiply his [riches], || Is giving to the rich—only to want.
18For they are pleasant when you keep them in your heart, || They are prepared together for your lips.
Cross References
Psalms 90:12Let [us] know to number our days correctly, || And we bring the heart to wisdom.
Proverbs 2:2To cause your ear to attend to wisdom, || You incline your heart to understanding,
Proverbs 4:4And he directs me, and he says to me: “Let your heart retain my words, || Keep my commands, and live.
Proverbs 8:33Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not slight.
Ecclesiastes 7:25I have turned around, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and the madness of foolishness.
Ecclesiastes 8:16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that has been done on the earth (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by 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 →