Proverbs 15:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

A scorner loveth not to be reproved: He will not go unto the wise.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: Neither will he go unto the wise.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

A scorner has no love for one who rebukes him; neither will he go to the wise [for counsel].

American Standard Version (1901)

A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise.

Common English Bible

Mockers don’t like those who correct them. They won’t go to the wise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

He who corrupts himself does not love the one who afflicts him, nor will he step toward the wise.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go to the wise.

Proverbs 15:12 Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:7

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesieth good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

Job 21:14

Yet they said unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scorners delight them in scorning, And fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son heareth his father's instruction: But a scorner heareth not rebuke.

Proverbs 14:6

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.

Proverbs 15:10

There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way: And he that hateth reproof shall die.

Amos 5:10

They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;