Proverbs 5:12
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 Standard Bible
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

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!

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!

Legacy Standard Bible
And you say, “How I have hated discipline! 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.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you will say, "Why have I hated instruction and my heart has despised reproof"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Literal Standard Version
And have said, “How I have hated instruction, | And my heart has despised reproof,

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

New American Bible
And you say, “Oh, why did I hate instruction, and my heart spurn reproof!

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

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

New Heart English Bible
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;

World English Bible
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.

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

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Context
Avoiding Immorality
11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent, 12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.…

Cross References
Psalm 50:17
For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 1:22
"How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:25
because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

Proverbs 5:11
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Proverbs 8:36
But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death."

Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.


Treasury of Scripture

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

how

Proverbs 1:7,22,29,30
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction…

Proverbs 15:5
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Psalm 50:17
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

and my

Proverbs 1:25
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

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(12) How have I hated instruction.--The last stage of misery is the remorse which comes too late. (Comp. Matthew 25:30.)

Verse 12. - Self-reproach accompanies the unavailable groaning. And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof! i.e. how could it ever come to pass that I have acted in such a senseless and inexcusable manner, that I have hated instruction (musar, disciplina, παιδεία), the warning voice which dissuaded me from going with the harlot, and in my heart despised, i.e. rejected inwardly, whatever my outward demeanour may have been, the reproof which followed after I had been with her! Despised (naats), as in Proverbs 1:30; comp. also Proverbs 15:5, "A fool despiseth his father's instructions."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
and you will say,
וְֽאָמַרְתָּ֗ (wə·’ā·mar·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“How
אֵ֭יךְ (’êḵ)
Interjection
Strong's 349: How?, how!, where

I hated
שָׂנֵ֣אתִי (śā·nê·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 8130: To hate

discipline,
מוּסָ֑ר (mū·sār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4148: Chastisement, reproof, warning, instruction, restraint

and my heart
לִבִּֽי׃ (lib·bî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

despised
נָאַ֥ץ (nā·’aṣ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5006: To spurn, treat with contempt

reproof!
וְ֝תוֹכַ֗חַת (wə·ṯō·w·ḵa·ḥaṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8433: Chastisement, correction, refutation, proof


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