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


In Context

9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will scorn the wisdom of your words.

10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,

11 for their Defender is strong; he will take up their case against you.

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

13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

14 Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.

Proverbs 23:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:12Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:12Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:12Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:12Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:12Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:12Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:12Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:12Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:12Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.