Proverbs 5:12 {13}
Good News Translation
and you will say, "Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?

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

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?

how

Proverbs 1:7,22,29,30 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: . . .

Proverbs 15:5 A fool laugheth at the instruction of his father: but he that regardeth reproofs shall become prudent. In abundant justice there is the greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked shall be rooted out.

Psalm 50:17 Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

Psalm 73:22 And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

Zechariah 7:11-14 But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear. . . .

John 3:19,20 And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. . . .

and my

Proverbs 1:25 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

Proverbs 6:23 That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

Proverbs 12:1 He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but he that trusteth in his own devices, doth wickedly.

Proverbs 13:18 Poverty and shame to him that refuseth instruction: but he that yieldeth to reproof shall be glorified.

Genesis 19:9 But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.

Exodus 2:13,14 And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour? . . .

2 Chronicles 24:20-22 The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him forsake you? . . .

2 Chronicles 25:16 And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the king's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet departing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou hast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.

2 Chronicles 33:10,11 And the Lord spoke to his people, and they would not hearken. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Jeremiah 44:4 And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.

Zechariah 1:4-6 Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord. . . .

Context
Avoiding Immorality
11Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof, 12And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?13I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.…
Cross References
Psalm 50:17
Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

Proverbs 1:7
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 1:22
Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Proverbs 1:25
I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

Proverbs 5:11
Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,

Proverbs 8:36
Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.

Proverbs 12:1
He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but he that trusteth in his own devices, doth wickedly.

Proverbs 5:11
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