12Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,


In Context

9 Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.

10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,

11 And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:

12 Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,

13 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not in- dined my ear to masters?

14 I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.

Proverbs 5:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:12You will say, "How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:12And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12and say, |How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;