Proverbs 22:17
Incline your ear to the words of wise men: hear also my word, and apply your heart,
LXX2012 (US English)
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 90:12+ 90:12 Matt 4:6 They shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone. 1
Proverbs 2:2your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son.
Proverbs 4:4who spoke and instructed me, saying, Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep our commandments, forget them not:
Proverbs 8:33+ 8:33 not in Codex Vaticanus, but Alexandrine codex has this text Hear wisdom and be wise, and + 8:33 More lit., do not separate yourselves from it. be not strangers to it.
Ecclesiastes 7:25That which is far beyond what was, and a great depth, who shall find it out?
Ecclesiastes 8:16Whereupon I set my heart to know wisdom, and to perceive the trouble that was wrought upon the earth: for there is that neither by day nor night sees sleep with his eyes.
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 →