12 Apply 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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Apply הָבִ֣יאָה H935 Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular your heart לִבֶּ֑ךָ H3820 Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular to instruction לַמּוּסָ֣ר H4148 Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular and your ears וְ֝אָזְנֶ֗ךָ H241 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine dual construct | second person masculine singular to words לְאִמְרֵי־ H561 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct of knowledge דָֽעַת׃ H1847 Noun - feminine singular