Proverbs 5:12
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
- KJV
- And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- WEB
- and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
- ASV
- And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
- DARBY
- and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
- BLB
- and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart spurned rebuke!
- ÅB
- Og du må si: Hvordan har jeg kunnet hate tukt, og hvordan har mitt hjerte kunnet forakte tilrettevisning,
- OTB
- Du vil si: “Hvordan hatet jeg tukt, og mitt hjerte avviste tilrettevisning!
- B1930
- Og du må si: Hvorledes har jeg kunnet hate tukt, og hvorledes har mitt hjerte kunnet forakte tilrettevisning,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Read in contextProverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Read in contextProverbs 15:5
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Read in contextProverbs 1:25
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Read in contextProverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Read in contextProverbs 13:18
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Read in contextJohn 3:19–20
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Read in contextPsalms 50:17
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
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