Proverbs 5:12

Amplified Bible

And you say, "How I hated instruction and discipline, And my heart despised correction and reproof!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and you will say, “How I hated discipline,and how my heart despised correction.

Hebrew Names Version
And say, "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

King James Version
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

English Standard Version
and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

New Century Version
Then you will say, "I hated being told what to do! I would not listen to correction!

New English Translation
And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!

New American Standard Bible
And you say, "How I hated instruction! And my heart disdainfully rejected rebuke!

World English Bible
And say, "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

Legacy Standard Bible
And you say, "How I have hated discipline!And my heart spurned reproof!

Berean Standard Bible
and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Contemporary English Version
and shout, "I hated advice and correction!

Complete Jewish Bible
"How I hated discipline! My whole being despised reproof,

Darby Translation
and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!

Easy-to-Read Version
Then you will say, "Why didn't I listen to my parents? Why didn't I pay attention to my teachers? I didn't want to be disciplined. I refused to be corrected.

George Lamsa Translation
And you say, Why did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproof,

Good News Translation
and you will say, "Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?

Lexham English Bible
and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!"

Literal Translation
and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and then saye: Alas, why hated I nurtoure? why dyd my hert despyse correccion?

American Standard Version
And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

Bible in Basic English
And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

King James Version (1611)
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproofe?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Alas, why hated I nurture? why did my heart dispise correction?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!

English Revised Version
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whi wlatide Y teching, and myn herte assentide not to blamyngis;

Update Bible Version
And say, How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

Webster's Bible Translation
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

New King James Version
And say: "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!

New Living Translation
You will say, "How I hated discipline! If only I had not ignored all the warnings!

New Life Bible
You would say, "How I have hated teaching! My heart hated strong words!

New Revised Standard
and you say, "Oh, how I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And thou shalt say - How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,

Revised Standard Version
and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Young's Literal Translation
And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And you say, "How I have hated instruction! And my heart spurned reproof!

Contextual Overview

¹My son, be attentive to my wisdom [godly wisdom learned by costly experience], Incline your ear to my understanding; ²That you may exercise discrimination and discretion (good judgment), And your lips may reserve knowledge and answer wisely [to temptation]. ³For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey [like a honeycomb] And her speech is smoother than oil; ⁴But in the end she is bitter like [the extract of] wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), ⁶So that she does not think [seriously] about the path of life; Her ways are aimless and unstable; you cannot know where her path leads. ⁷Now then, my sons, listen to me And do not depart from (forget) the words of my mouth. ⁸Let your way [in life] be far from her, And do not go near the door of her house [avoid even being near the places of temptation], ⁹Or you will give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel one, ¹⁰And strangers will be filled with your strength And your hard-earned wealth will go to the house of a foreigner [who does not know God];

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How: Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 1:29, Proverbs 1:30, Proverbs 15:5, Psalms 50:17, Psalms 73:22, Zechariah 7:11-14, John 3:19, John 3:20

and my: Proverbs 1:25, Proverbs 6:23, Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 13:18, Genesis 19:9, Exodus 2:13, Exodus 2:14, 2 Chronicles 24:20-22, 2 Chronicles 25:16, 2 Chronicles 33:10, 2 Chronicles 33:11, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Jeremiah 44:4, Zechariah 1:4-6

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:15 - soul 1 Samuel 25:31 - grief 1 Kings 22:8 - Let not the Proverbs 8:36 - all Proverbs 10:17 - he that Proverbs 10:21 - fools Proverbs 15:10 - and he Proverbs 15:32 - refuseth Proverbs 30:2 - brutish Jeremiah 17:23 - nor Jeremiah 36:23 - he cut Zephaniah 3:2 - correction Acts 13:41 - ye despisers Romans 1:28 - as they did

Cross-References

Luke 3:37
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And say, how have I hated instruction,.... To live virtuously, and avoid the adulterous woman; this he says, as wondering at his stupidity, folly, and madness, that he should hate and abhor that which was so much his interest to have observed. Gersom interprets it of the instruction of the law; but it is much better to understand it of the instruction of the Gospel; which the carnal mind of man is enmity unto, and which they are so stupid as to abhor; when it is of so much usefulness to preserve from error and heresy, superstition, will worship, and idolatry;

and my heart despised reproof; for following the whorish woman; and which was secretly despised in the heart, and heartily too, if not expressed with the mouth: it is one part of the Gospel ministry to reprove for false doctrine and false worship, though it generally falls under the contempt of the erroneous and idolatrous.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

More bitter than slavery, poverty, disease, will be the bitterness of self-reproach, the hopeless remorse that worketh death.