your ear shall hearken to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son.

and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;

[My] son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my words;

that you may keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives you a charge. Give no heed to a worthless woman,

to receive also hard sayings, and to understand true justice, and how to direct judgment;

[My] son, forget not my laws, but let your heart keep my words:

who spoke and instructed me, [saying], Let our speech be fixed in your heart, keep our commandments, forget them not:

And forsake it not, and it shall cleave to you: love it, and it shall keep you.

Secure it, and it shall exalt you: honor it, that it may embrace you;

[This translation omits this verse.]

watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances.

Give heed with your ears, and follow My ways; hearken to Me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the sure mercies of David.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold, a voice [came] out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"

Apply your heart to instruction, and prepare your ears for words of discretion.

And [who knows how] to number [his days] because of the fear of Your wrath? So manifest Your right hand, and those that are instructed in wisdom in the heart.

I and my heart went round about to know, and to examine, and to seek wisdom, and the account [of things], and to know the folly and trouble and madness of the ungodly man.

So I saw all this, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; all the things in which man has power over man, to afflict him.

On this I set my heart to know wisdom, and to perceive the trouble that was done upon the earth; even though one sees no sleep day or night.