Psalms 90:12

12 aSo teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Proverbs 22:17-21

Words of the Wise

17 bIncline your ear, and hear cthe words of the wise,
dand apply your heart to my knowledge,
18for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,
if all of them are ready on your lips.
19That your trust may be in the Lord,
I have made them known to you today, even to you.
20Have I not written for you ethirty sayings
of counsel and knowledge,
21to fmake you know what is right and true,
that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?

Proverbs 23:12

12Apply your heart to instruction
and your ear to words of knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

25 gI turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

9 hAll this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see ithe business that is done on earth, how neither jday nor night do one’s eyes see sleep,

Acts 17:11

11Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, kexamining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
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