Proverbs 4:20
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English Standard Version
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

New American Standard Bible
My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

King James Bible
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My son, pay attention to my words; listen closely to my sayings.

International Standard Version
My son, pay attention to my words, and listen closely to what I say.

NET Bible
My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
My son, give ear to my words and incline your ear to my speech.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My son, pay attention to my words. Open your ears to what I say.

King James 2000 Bible
My son, attend to my words; incline your ear unto my sayings.

American King James Version
My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

American Standard Version
My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

Darby Bible Translation
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

English Revised Version
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Webster's Bible Translation
My son, attend to my words; incline thy ear to my sayings.

World English Bible
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

Young's Literal Translation
My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,
Lexicon
My son
ben  (bane)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc.
attend
qashab  (kaw-shab')
to prick up the ears, i.e. hearken -- attend, (cause to) hear(-ken), give heed, incline, mark (well), regard.
to my words
dabar  (daw-baw')
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
incline
natah  (naw-taw')
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
thine ear
'ozen  (o'-zen)
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man) -- + advertise, audience, + displease, ear, hearing, + show.
unto my sayings
'emer  (ay'-mer)
something said -- answer, appointed unto him, saying, speech, word.
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