Proverbs 2:2 (BSB)

if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

From Proverbs 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 2:2

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 2:1-9: Job had asked, long before this, Where shall wisdom be found? Whence cometh wisdom? (Job 28:12, Job 28:20) and he had given this general answer (v. 23), God knoweth the place of it; but Solomon here goes further, and tells us both where we may find it and how we may get it. We are here told, I. What means we must use that we may obtain wisdom. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 2:2: So that thou incline thine ear unto Wisdom,.... Hearken to Wisdom, that is, Christ; or rather to the instruction of Wisdom, which is the Gospel; so called, because it is the produce of divine wisdom, what the wisdom of man could never have devised, and which it opposes; and in which there is a most glorious display of the wisdom of God, in the justification...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 2:2: Listen attentively and reflect seriously (Pro 1:24; Psa 130:2). understanding--right perception of truth.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 2:2: So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding; (b) If you give yourself to the true knowledge of God without hypocrisy.