2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding-
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
2 Tune your ears to the world of Wisdom; set your heart on a life of Understanding.
2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;
2 Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil.
7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
7 Don't assume that you know it all. Run to God! Run from evil!
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and depart from evil.
7 Don't be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
(Read Proverbs 3:7-12)
There is not a greater enemy to the fear of the Lord in the heart, than self-conceit of our own wisdom. The prudence and sobriety which religion teaches, tend not only to the health of the soul, but to the health of the body. Worldly wealth is but poor substance, yet, such as it is, we must honour God with it; and those that do good with what they have, shall have more to do more good with. Should the Lord visit us with trials and sickness, let us not forget that the exhortation speaks to us as to children, for our good. We must not faint under an affliction, be it ever so heavy and long, not be driven to despair, or use wrong means for relief. The father corrects the son whom he loves, because he loves him, and desires that he may be wise and good. Afflictions are so far from doing God's children any hurt, that, by the grace of God, they promote their holiness.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 2:2
Commentary on Proverbs 2:1-9
(Read Proverbs 2:1-9)
Those who earnestly seek heavenly wisdom, will never complain that they have lost their labour; and the freeness of the gift does not do away the necessity of our diligence, John 6:27. Let them seek, and they shall find it; let them ask, and it shall be given them. Observe who are thus favoured. They are the righteous, on whom the image of God is renewed, which consists in righteousness. If we depend upon God, and seek to him for wisdom, he will enable us to keep the paths of judgment.