Proverbs 2:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

Proverbs 2:2 —

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Proverbs 23:12
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 18:1
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
Psalms 119:111-112
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. …
Psalms 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Matthew 13:9
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Job had asked, long before this, Where shall wisdom be found? Whence cometh wisdom? (Job 28:12, 20) and he had given this general answer (Job 28:23), God knoweth the place of it; but Solomon here goes further, and tells us both where we may find it and how we may get it. We are here told, I. What means we must use that we may obtain wisdom. 1. We must closely attend to the word of God, for that is…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Pr 2:1-22. Men are invited to seek wisdom because it teaches those principles by which they may obtain God’s guidance and avoid the society and influence of the wicked, whose pernicious courses are described. 1-5. Diligence in hearing and praying for instruction must be used to secure the great principle of godliness, the fear of God. hide ... with thee--lay up in store (compare Pr 7:1).