Proverbs 15:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹² A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him; he will not consult 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 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 18:7

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, ‘There is still one man who can enquire of the Lord, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.’ ‘The king shouldn’t say that,’ Jehoshaphat replied.

Job 21:14

Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We don’t want to know your ways.

Proverbs 1:22

‘How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers  enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son responds to his father’s discipline, but a mocker doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 14:6

A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.

Proverbs 15:10

Discipline is harsh for the one who leaves the path; the one who hates correction will die.

Amos 5:10

They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate, and they despise  the one who speaks with integrity.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate   you, but it does hate me because I testify about it #– #that its works are evil.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine,  but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.