Verse List for PROV 23:12

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B I ◄ ← Prov 23:12 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Make continual learning part of your values, ⇔ and use your ears for gaining knowledge.

OET-LV Bring to_discipline heart _of_your and_ear _of_your to_words/messages _of knowledge.

ULT Bring your heart to correction ⇔ and your ear to words of knowledge.

UST Consider carefully what people say when they correct you. ⇔  Indeed, listen carefully to what people teach you.

BSB & MSB Apply your heart to instruction ⇔  and your ears to words of knowledge.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB ⇔  Apply your heart to instruction, ⇔  and your ears to the words of knowledge.

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

LSV Bring your heart to instruction,
And your ear to sayings of knowledge.

FBV Focus your mind on instruction; listen intently to words of knowledge.

T4T Pay attention to what your teachers teach you, ⇔  and try to learn from the wise things that they say.

LEB • Apply your heart[fn] to instruction,
• and your ear to sayings of knowledge.

BBE Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Moff Apply your mind to instruction ⇔  attend to words of knowledge;

JPS Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

ASV Apply thy heart unto instruction, ⇔ And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

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

YLT Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

Drby Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

RV Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
(Apply thine/your heart unto instruction, and thine/your ears to the words of knowledge.)

SLT Bring thy heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Wbstr Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge.

KJB-1769 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
(Apply thine/your heart unto instruction, and thine/your ears to the words of knowledge.)

KJB-1611 Apply thine heart vnto instruction, and thine eares to the words of knowledge.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps Applye thyne heart vnto correction, and thyne eare to the wordes of knowledge.
(Applye thine/your heart unto correction, and thine/your ear to the words of knowledge.)

Gnva Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.
(Apply thine/your heart to instruction, and thine/your ears to the words of knowledge.)

Cvdl Applie thine herte vnto lernynge, and thine eare to the wordes of knowlege.
(Applie thine/your heart unto learning, and thine/your ear to the words of knowledge.)

Wycl Thin herte entre to techyng, and thin eeris `be redi to the wordis of kunnyng.
(Thin heart enter to teaching, and thin ears be ready to the words of cunning.)

Luth Gib dein Herz zur Zucht und deine Ohren zu vernünftiger Rede.
(Give your(s) heart to/for culture/discipline and your ears to/for reasonable speech.)

ClVg [Ingrediatur ad doctrinam cor tuum, et aures tuæ ad verba scientiæ.
([Ingrediatur to teaching heart your(sg), and ears yours to words of_knowledge.)

UHB הָבִ֣יאָ⁠ה לַ⁠מּוּסָ֣ר לִבֶּ֑⁠ךָ וְ֝⁠אָזְנֶ֗⁠ךָ לְ⁠אִמְרֵי־דָֽעַת׃ ‡

BrLXX Δὸς εἰς παιδείαν τὴν καρδίαν σου, τὰ δὲ ὦτά σου ἑτοίμασον λόγοις αἰσθήσεως.

BrTr Apply thine heart to instruction, and prepare thine ears for words of discretion.