Proverbs 5:13
11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
- KJV
- And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
- WEB
- I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
- ASV
- Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
- DARBY
- and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
- BLB
- And I have not listened to the voice of my instructors, and I have not inclined my ear to those teaching me.
- ÅB
- så jeg ikke hørte på dem som lærte meg, og ikke bøyde mitt øre til dem som veiledet meg!
- OTB
- Jeg hørte ikke på mine læreres røst, og jeg lyttet ikke til mine veiledere.
- B1930
- så jeg ikke hørte på dem som lærte mig, og ikke bøide mitt øre til dem som veiledet mig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
Read in contextHebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
Read in contextLuke 15:18
I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:12–13
But we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who work diligently among you, who preside over you in the Lord and give you instruction.
Read in context