Proverbs 23:12 Parallel Translations
NASB: Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Live a more disciplined life, and listen carefully to words of knowledge.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: Apply thine 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.
BBE: Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
DBY: Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
ERV: Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
JPS: Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
WBS: Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge.
WEB: Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
YLT: Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.
Proverbs 23:12 Cross References
XREF:Proverbs 23:11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.

Proverbs 23:13 Do not hold back discipline from the child, Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
MHC: 23:12-16 Here is a parent instructing his child to give his mind to the Scriptures. Here is a parent correcting his child: accompanied with prayer, and blessed of God, it may prove a means of preventing his destruction. Here is a parent encouraging his child, telling him what would be for his good. And what a comfort it would be, if herein he answered his expectation! 17,18. The believer's expectation shall not be disappointed; the end of his trials, and of the sinner's prosperity, is at hand.
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