Proverbs 5:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 correction loveth knowledge: But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's correction: But he that regardeth reproof getteth prudence.

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 scorners delight them in scorning, And fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Jeremiah 44:4

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up 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 correction: But he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

Psalm 50:17

Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee.

Psalm 73:22

So brutish 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 scoffed at 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, Have we made thee 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, 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 drew 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 thy latter end, 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 heedeth correction: But he that forsaketh reproof erreth.