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


In Context

9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

11 for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.

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

13 Don't withhold correction 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 Sheol.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:12Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to 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 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.