en_tn_condensed/pro/23/12.md

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# 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). Alternate translation: "Do your best to understand and remember" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/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. Alternate translation: "apply your ears" or "listen carefully" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-ellipsis]])
# to words of knowledge
"to me when I tell you what I know"