by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,

侧耳听智慧，专心求聪明，

留心听智慧，专心求聪明；

留心听智慧，专心求聪明；

侧耳聆听智慧，倾心渴慕悟性；

留心听智慧，致力求聪明；

使你的耳朵留心听智慧，使你的心专注聪慧；

側耳聽智慧，專心求聰明，

留心聽智慧，專心求聰明；

留心聽智慧，專心求聰明；

側耳聆聽智慧，傾心渴慕悟性；

留心聽智慧，致力求聰明；

留心側耳聽智慧，傾心求明哲；

使你的耳朵留心聽智慧，使你的心專注聰慧；

傾耳以聆智慧、盡心以求通達、

傾耳聽道、專心學理、

傾耳聽智慧言、專心求明哲、

turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—

Let your ears listen to wisdom. Apply your heart to understanding.

making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding.

listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding;

Make your ear attentive to wisdom; Incline your heart to understanding.

So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;

So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding;

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom,[ and] apply thine heart to understanding;

so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

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

Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my instruction.For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.So that your confidence may be in the LORD, I am making them known to you today– even you.Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,to show you true and reliable words, so that you may give accurate answers to those who sent you?

One who has isolated himself seeks his own desires; he rejects all sound judgment.

So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.I am determined to obey your statutes at all times, to the very end.ס( Samek)

Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.

While applying my mind to everything that happens in this world, I have seen all this: Sometimes one person dominates other people to their harm.

The one who has ears had better listen!”

When I tried to gain wisdom and to observe the activity on earth– even though it prevents anyone from sleeping day or night–

These Jews were more open- minded than those in Thessalonica, for they eagerly received the message, examining the scriptures carefully every day to see if these things were so.

I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.