Proverbs 22:17 Cross References - LXX2012

¹⁷ Incline your ear to the words of wise men: hear also my word, and apply your heart,

¹² They shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.

³ to receive also hard saying, and to understand true justice, and [how] to direct judgment;

² your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son. ³ For it you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding; ⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; ⁵ then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

¹ [My] son, forget not my laws; but let your heart keep my words:

⁴ who spoke and instructed me, [saying], Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep [our] commandments, forget them not: ⁵ and do not neglect the speech of my mouth. ⁶ And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to you: love it, and it shall keep you.

⁸ Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you;

¹ [My] son, attend to my wisdom, and apply your ear to my words; ² that you may keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives you a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman;

³³ [Hear wisdom and be wise, and be not strangers to it. ] ³⁴ watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances.

¹² Apply your heart to instruction, and prepare your ears for words of discretion.

²⁵ [That which is] far beyond what was, and a great depth, who shall find it out?

⁹ So I saw all this, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; all the things wherein man has power over man to afflict him.

¹⁶ Whereupon I set my heart to know wisdom, and to perceive the trouble that was wrought upon the earth: for there is that neither by day nor night sees sleep with his eyes.

³ Give heed with your ears, and follow my ways: listen to me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the sure mercies of David.