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


In Context

9 lest you give your best strength to others and your years to one who is cruel,

10 lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich another man's house.

11 At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.

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

13 I would not obey my teachers or listen to my instructors.

14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly."

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,

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;