Apply ¹  your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Incline your ear ²  and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my instruction. ³ 

One law and one custom must apply to you and to the resident foreigner who lives alongside you.’”

While applying ¹  my mind ²  to everything ³  that happens in this world, ⁴  I have seen all this: Sometimes one person ⁵  dominates ⁶  other people ⁷  to their harm. ⁸ 

The same law will apply ¹  to the person who is native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you.”

by making ¹  your ear ²  attentive to wisdom, and ³  by turning ⁴  your heart ⁵  to understanding,

When I tried ¹  to gain ²  wisdom and to observe the activity ³  on earth – even though it prevents anyone from sleeping day or night ⁴  –

¹  Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”

“This is what pertains to the Levites: ¹  At the age of twenty-five years ²  and upward one may begin to join the company ³  in the work of the tent of meeting,

He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.

Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, ¹  and apply it for your own ²  good.” ³ 

or when jealous feelings come over a man and he becomes suspicious of his wife; then he must have the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest will carry out all this law upon her.

I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, ¹  so that through us you may learn “not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

If the ox ¹  gores a son or a daughter, the owner ²  will be dealt with according to this rule. ³ 

So teach us to consider our mortality, ¹  so that we might live wisely. ² 

Isaiah ordered, “Get a fig cake.” So they did as he ordered ¹  and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered. ² 

So I decided ¹  to discern the benefit of ²  wisdom and knowledge over ³  foolish behavior and ideas; ⁴  however, I concluded ⁵  that even ⁶  this endeavor ⁷  is like ⁸  trying to chase the wind! ⁹ 

I tried ¹  to understand, examine, and comprehend ²  the role of ³  wisdom in the scheme of things, ⁴  and to understand the stupidity of wickedness ⁵  and the insanity of folly. ⁶ 

I decided ¹  to carefully ²  and thoroughly examine ³  all that has been accomplished on earth. ⁴  I concluded: ⁵  God has given people ⁶  a burdensome task ⁷  that keeps them ⁸  occupied. ⁹ 

All the days of his separation he must be holy to the Lord.