# General Information:

These verses continue the "thirty sayings" ([Proverbs 22:20](../22/20.md)).

# Apply your heart to

This is an idiom. See how you translated this in [Proverbs 22:17](../22/17.md). AT: "Do your best to understand and remember" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# instruction

Possible meanings are 1) "what people who know what is right and what is wrong tell you" or 2) "what people say and do when they correct you."

# your ears

The ellipsis can be filled in. AT: "apply your ears" or "listen carefully" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])

# to words of knowledge

"to me when I tell you what I know"

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heart]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/word]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/know]]