Let your ears listen to wisdom. Apply 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—

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;

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

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

Apply your heart to what you are taught. Listen carefully to words of knowledge.

Pay attention and listen to the sayings of wise people. Apply your heart to the sayings I teach.It is pleasing when you keep them in your heart. Have all of them ready on your lips.You are the one I am teaching today. That’s because I want you to trust in the Lord.I have written 30 sayings for you. They will give you knowledge and good advice.I am teaching you to be honest and to speak the truth. Then you can give honest reports to those you serve.

A person who isn’t friendly looks out only for themselves. They oppose all good sense by starting fights.

Teach us to realize how short our lives are. Then our hearts will become wise.

Your covenant laws are your gift to me forever. They fill my heart with joy.I have decided to obey your orders to the very end. Samekh

Listen and come to me. Pay attention to me. Then you will live. I will make a covenant with you that will last forever. I will give you my faithful love. I promised it to David.

I understood all these things. I used my mind to study everything that’s done on earth. A man sometimes makes life hard for others. But he ends up hurting himself.

Whoever has ears should listen.”

I used my mind to understand what it really means to be wise. I wanted to observe the hard work people do on earth. They don’t close their eyes and go to sleep day or night.

The Berean Jews were very glad to receive Paul’s message. They studied the Scriptures carefully every day. They wanted to see if what Paul said was true. So they were more noble than the Thessalonian Jews.

So I tried to understand wisdom more completely. I wanted to study it and figure it out. I tried to find out everything I could about it. I tried to understand why it’s foolish to be evil. I wanted to see why choosing foolishness is so unwise.