Proverbs 15:12 - King James 2000

A scoffer loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go to the wise.

Proverbs 15:12 Tagairtí Cros

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 prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

Job 21:14

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.

Proverbs 1:22

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son hears his father's instruction: but a scoffer hears not rebuke.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understands.

Proverbs 15:10

Correction is grievous unto him that forsakes the way: and he that hates reproof shall die.

Amos 5:10

They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

John 7:7

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

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they draw to themselves teachers, having itching ears;