Proverbs 5:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And you say, How I hated instruction and discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹² and you say, “How I hated instruction! How my heart despised correction!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² "Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?

Proverbs 5:12 Cross References

Proverbs 12:1

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 1:25

but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Jeremiah 44:4

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honored.

Psalm 50:17

seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

Psalm 73:22

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

2 Chronicles 36:16

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

2 Chronicles 25:16

And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

Genesis 19:9

And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Proverbs 5:11

and thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

Proverbs 8:36

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Proverbs 10:17

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.