Proverbs 22:17
Good News Translation
Listen, and I will teach you what the wise have said. Study their teachings,

New Revised Standard Version
The words of the wise: Incline your ear and hear my words, and apply your mind to my teaching;

Contemporary English Version
Here are some sayings of people with wisdom, so listen carefully as I teach.

New American Bible
The Words of the Wise: Incline your ear, and hear my words, and let your mind attend to my teaching;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:

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Proverbs 2:2-5 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: . . .

Proverbs 5:1,2 That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman. . . .

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Proverbs 1:3 To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 3:1 For they shall add to thee length of days, and years of life, and peace.

Proverbs 4:4-8 Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. . . .

Proverbs 8:33,34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. . . .

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

Matthew 17:5 And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him.

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

Psalm 90:12 Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 7:25 I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:

Ecclesiastes 8:9,16 All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. . . .

Context
Thirty Sayings of the Wise
17Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:18Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:…
Cross References
Proverbs 2:2
For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

Proverbs 5:1
That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.

Proverbs 24:23
These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.

Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd.

Proverbs 22:16
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