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Proverbs 5:12

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,

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He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is foolish.

A fool laugheth at the instruction of his father: but he that regardeth reproofs shall become prudent. In abundant justice there is the greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked shall be rooted out.

You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.

O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing which I hate.

Poverty and shame to him that refuseth instruction: but he that yieldeth to reproof, shall be glorified.

O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.

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

And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the king's counsellor? Be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet departing said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou hast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.

But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a, stranger, was it to be a judge? Therefore we will afflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.

Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:

But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.

The way of life, to him that observeth correction: but he that forsaketh reproofs goeth astray.




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