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New American Standard Bible

Proverbs 15:12

A scoffer does not love one who rebukes him; He will not go to the wise.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Pride;   Reproof;   The Topic Concordance - Scorn;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Reproof;   Scorning and Mocking;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Scoffer;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A scorner loueth not him that rebuketh him, neither will he goe vnto the wise.
Christian Standard Bible®
A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him;he will not consult the wise.
Hebrew Names Version
A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; He will not go to the wise.
Easy-to-Read Version
Fools hate to be told they are wrong, so they refuse to ask wise people for advice.
Amplified Bible
A scoffer [unlike a wise man] resents one who rebukes him and tries to teach him; Nor will he go to the wise [for counsel and instruction].
American Standard Version
A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise.
Contemporary English Version
Those who sneer at others don't like to be corrected, and they won't ask help from someone with sense.
Complete Jewish Bible
A scorner does not like being corrected; he won't go to the wise [for advice].
JPS Old Testament (1917)
A scorner loveth not to be reproved; he will not go unto the wise.
King James Version (1611)
A scorner loueth not one that reproueth him: neither will he goe vnto the wise.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
An uninstructed person will not love those that reprove him; neither will he associate with the wise.
English Revised Version
A scorner loveth not to be reproved: he will not go unto the wise.
Berean Standard Bible
A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.
Lexham English Bible
A scoffer does not like his rebuke; to the wise he will not go.
Literal Translation
A scorner does not love one who corrects him, nor will he go to the wise.
New Century Version
Those who make fun of wisdom don't like to be corrected; they will not ask the wise for advice.
New English Translation
The scorner does not love one who corrects him; he will not go to the wise.
New King James Version
A scoffer does not love one who corrects him, Nor will he go to the wise.
New Living Translation
Mockers hate to be corrected, so they stay away from the wise.
New Life Bible
A man who laughs at the truth has no love for the one who speaks strong words to him. He will not go to the wise.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A scoffer, loveth not, one who reproveth him, unto the wise, doth he not go.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go to the wise.
George Lamsa Translation
An evil man does not love one who reproves him, neither will he walk with the wise.
Good News Translation
Conceited people do not like to be corrected; they never ask for advice from those who are wiser.
King James Version
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A scornefull body loueth not one that rebuketh hym: neither wyll he come vnto the wyse.
New Revised Standard
Scoffers do not like to be rebuked; they will not go to the wise.
Darby Translation
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him; he will not go unto the wise.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A man ful of pestilence loueth not hym that repreueth him; and he goith not to wyse men.
Young's Literal Translation
A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.
World English Bible
A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; He will not go to the wise.
Revised Standard Version
A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
Update Bible Version
A scoffer does not love to be reproved; He will not go to the wise.
Webster's Bible Translation
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go to the wise.
Bible in Basic English
The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A scornefull body loueth not one yt rebuketh him, nether wil he come amonge ye wyse.
THE MESSAGE
Know-it-alls don't like being told what to do; they avoid the company of wise men and women.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A scoffer does not love one who reproves him, He will not go to the wise.
Legacy Standard Bible
A scoffer does not love one who reproves him,He will not go to the wise.

Contextual Overview

12 A scoffer does not love one who rebukes him; He will not go to the wise.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

scorner: Proverbs 15:10, Proverbs 9:7, Proverbs 9:8, Amos 5:10, John 3:18-21, John 7:7, 2 Timothy 4:3

neither: 2 Chronicles 18:7, Job 21:14

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:8 - but I hate him Proverbs 1:22 - the scorners Matthew 21:46 - they sought Luke 3:19 - General John 3:20 - every Ephesians 5:11 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 2:21
So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place.
Genesis 15:3
Abram also said, "Since You have given me no son, one who has been born in my house is my heir."
Genesis 15:5
And He took him outside and said, "Now look toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And He said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
Genesis 15:8
But he said, "Lord GOD, how may I know that I will possess it?"
Genesis 15:9
So He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:13
Then God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
Genesis 15:14
"But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and the jug of water that were at Saul's head, and they left; and no one saw or knew about it, nor did anyone awaken, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.
Job 33:15
"In a dream, a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on people, While they slumber in their beds,
Acts 20:9
And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, Eutychus was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor, and was picked up dead.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him,.... He that makes a jest of religion; scoffs at godliness and godly men; treats the Gospel and the ministers of it with contempt; makes a mock at good men, and all that is good; a pestilent fellow, as the Vulgate Latin version: such an one not only does not love, for more is intended than is expressed; but hates him that reproves him, and especially if publicly, Amos 5:10; he thinks ill of him; bears him a grudge, and abhors him; and speaks evil of him, and reproaches him; and does all he can to the injury of his person and name; hence the advice of the wise man, Proverbs 9:7. Some render it, he "loves not reproving himself", or "to reprove himself" b; he does not care to look into his own heart and ways, or to call himself to an account for what he does; nor to check himself in the pursuit of sin, nor argue with and reprove himself for it;

neither will he go unto the wise; to the private houses of wise and good men; nor to the house of wisdom, or place of public instruction, where wise dispensers of the word give good advice and counsel; scorners do not choose to go to either, lest they should be reproved for their evil ways, and be advised leave them; neither of which is agreeable to them; see John 3:20.

b הוכח לו "corripere", Gejerus.


 
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