Proverbs 5:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
You will say, "How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!

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

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

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

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

NASB 1995
And you say, "How I have hated instruction! And my heart spurned reproof!

NASB 1977
And you say, “How I have hated instruction! And my heart spurned reproof!

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

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

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Oh, how I hated discipline! How my heart despised correction!

International Standard Version
and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction!

NET Bible
And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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!

King James 2000 Bible
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

New Heart English Bible
and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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

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

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

A Faithful Version
And say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;

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

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

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Alas, why hated I nurture? why did my heart dispise correction?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and then saye: Alas, why hated I nurtoure? why dyd my hert despyse correccion?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And have said, “How I have hated instruction, "" And my heart has despised reproof,

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

Smith's Literal Translation
And thou saidst, How did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproofs.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
“Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And you will say, "Why have I hated instruction and my heart has despised reproof"

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

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And say: 'How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and thou shalt say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!
















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