Proverbs 2:2

¹²Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

¹A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

¹²So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

¹¹¹I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart. ¹¹²I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end. SAMEKH

⁹He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

¹⁷Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching. ¹⁸For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. ¹⁹I teach you today, even you, so that your trust may be in the LORD. ²⁰Haven’t I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge, ²¹To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

⁹All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

¹¹Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

³Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

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),