Proverbs 15:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² A scorner loveth not to be reproved: He will not go unto the wise.

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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 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;