Proverbs 5:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline, 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

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despises a parent’s instruction, but the one who heeds admonition is prudent.

Proverbs 1:25

and because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:7

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

Jeremiah 44:4

Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, “I beg you not to do this abominable thing that I hate!”

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and disgrace are for the one who ignores instruction, but one who heeds reproof is honored.

Psalm 50:17

For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

Psalm 73:22

I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you.

2 Chronicles 36:16

but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord against his people became so great that there was no remedy.

2 Chronicles 25:16

But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be put to death?” So the prophet stopped but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.”

Genesis 19:9

But they replied, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came here as an alien, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot and came near the door to break it down.

Proverbs 6:23

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Proverbs 5:11

and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,

Proverbs 8:36

but those who miss me injure themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 10:17

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but one who rejects a rebuke goes astray.