Proverbs 15:12 - Tree of Life Version

¹² A mocker dislikes one who corrects him; he will not go to 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.

Proverbs 15:12 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 18:7

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can inquire of Adonai—but I hate him, because he has never prophesied anything good about me but always evil. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” But Jehoshaphat said, “May the king never say such a thing.”

Job 21:14

Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know Your ways.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long will you naïve ones love simplicity, you scoffers delight in scoffing, and you fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 13:1

A wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 14:6

A scoffer seeks wisdom yet finds none, but knowledge is easy to the discerning.

Proverbs 15:10

Stern correction awaits one who forsakes the way. One who hates reproof will die.

Amos 5:10

They despise one who reproves at the gate, so they detest one who speaks with integrity.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify that its works are evil.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when they will not put up with sound instruction, but they will pile up for themselves teachers in keeping with their own desires, to have their ears tickled.