Proverbs 15:12 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹² A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: Neither will he go unto the wise.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² A scorner has no love for one who rebukes him; neither will he go to the wise [for counsel].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise.

Common English Bible

¹² Mockers don’t like those who correct them. They won’t go to the wise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² 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

¹² 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 to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

Job 21:14

They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

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 13:1

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.

Proverbs 15:10

There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; he who hates reproof will die.

Amos 5:10

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.

John 7:7

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

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings,