Proverbs 22:17
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
World Messianic Bible
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
16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
Cross References
Psalms 90:12So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Proverbs 2:2so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 4:4He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 8:33Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.
Ecclesiastes 7:25I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or 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 →