incline your ear.

Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise,

And apply your heart to my knowledge;

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you;

Let them all be fixed upon your lips,

So that your trust may be in the LORD;

I have instructed you today, even you.

Have I not written to you excellent things

of counsels and knowledge,

That I may make you know 

the certainty of the words of truth,

That you may answer words of truth

to those who send to you?

proverbs 22:17-21