¹² Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to the words of knowledge.

² So as to turn your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding;

³ Yes, if you call out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding;

⁴ If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures:

⁵ Then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, And find the knowledge of God.

⁶ For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

¹ My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

² That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.

¹⁷ Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

¹⁹ Listen, my son, and be wise, And keep your heart on the right path!

³¹ They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

⁵² He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."

²¹ Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls{or, preserve your life.}.

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror;

²⁴ for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

²⁵ But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.