listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding;

侧耳听智慧，专心求聪明，

留心听智慧，专心求聪明；

留心听智慧，专心求聪明；

侧耳聆听智慧，倾心渴慕悟性；

留心听智慧，致力求聪明；

使你的耳朵留心听智慧，使你的心专注聪慧；

側耳聽智慧，專心求聰明，

留心聽智慧，專心求聰明；

留心聽智慧，專心求聰明；

側耳聆聽智慧，傾心渴慕悟性；

留心聽智慧，致力求聰明；

留心側耳聽智慧，傾心求明哲；

使你的耳朵留心聽智慧，使你的心專注聰慧；

傾耳以聆智慧、盡心以求通達、

傾耳聽道、專心學理、

傾耳聽智慧言、專心求明哲、

turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—

Let your ears listen to wisdom. Apply your heart to understanding.

making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding.

listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding;

Make your ear attentive to wisdom; Incline your heart to understanding.

So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;

So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom,[ and] apply thine heart to understanding;

by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,

so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

Apply yourself to discipline and listen to words of knowledge.

Listen closely, pay attention to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge.For it is pleasing if you keep them within you and if they are constantly on your lips.I have instructed you today— even you— so that your confidence may be in the Lord.Haven’t I written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,in order to teach you true and reliable words, so that you may give a dependable report to those who sent you?

One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.

I have Your decrees as a heritage forever; indeed, they are the joy of my heart.I am resolved to obey Your statutes to the very end.

Pay attention and come to Me; listen, so that you will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the promises assured to David.

All this I have seen, applying my mind to all the work that is done under the sun, at a time when one man has authority over another to his harm.

Anyone who has ears should listen!”

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the activity that is done on the earth( even though one’s eyes do not close in sleep day or night),

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and seek wisdom and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.