12Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 23:12
Guarded Desire, Wise Discipline, the Fear of the LORD, and Warnings Against Envy, Gluttony, Lust, and Drunkenness
The chapter moves through warnings about appetite and wealth, discernment at corrupt tables, protection of boundaries and the fatherless, heart-applied instruction and discipline, parental joy, fear of the LORD over envy, warnings against gluttony and drunkenness, honoring parents, buying truth, sexual purity, and a final extended portrait of wine's deceptive destruction.
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Verse 12
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Applyהָבִ֣יאָהH935Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singularyour heartלִבֶּ֑ךָH3820Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singularto instructionלַמּוּסָ֣רH4148Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singularand your earsוְ֝אָזְנֶ֗ךָH241Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine dual construct | second person masculine singularto wordsלְאִמְרֵי־H561Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural constructof knowledgeדָֽעַת׃H1847Noun - feminine singular