Proverbs 22:17
Bow down yours ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply yours heart unto my knowledge.
Updated King James 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
18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall likewise be fitted in your lips.
Cross References
Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Proverbs 2:2So that you incline yours ear unto wisdom, and apply yours heart to understanding;
Proverbs 4:4He taught me also, and said unto me, Let yours heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 8:33Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Ecclesiastes 7:25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither 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 →