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

My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.

My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,

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

For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.

The person who hears the reproof that leads to life is at home among the wise.

The discerning person acquires knowledge, and the wise person seeks knowledge.

The ear that hears and the eye that sees – the Lord has made them both.

Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my instruction.

Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and will not be answered.

Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to the ear of the one who listens.

Like one who grabs a wild dog by the ears, so is the person passing by who becomes furious over a quarrel not his own.