Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.