Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 5:12
12and you will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned reproof!
Proverbs 5:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- New International Version (NIV)You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!
- English Standard Version (ESV)and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
- New King James Version (NKJV)And say: “How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!
Context of Proverbs 5:12
10lest strangers feast on your strength, your labors go to a foreigner’s house. 11At the end of your life, you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent— and you will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned reproof! 13I would not listen to my teacher’s voice or incline my ear to my instructors. 14I was almost in utter ruin amid the community and congregation.”
Read all of Proverbs 5Proverbs 5:12 word by word
וְֽאָמַרְתָּ֗ אֵ֭יךְ שָׂנֵ֣אתִי מוּסָ֑ר וְ֝תוֹכַ֗חַת נָאַ֥ץ לִבִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 5:12
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of Adonai is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- Proverbs 15:5A fool despises his father’s discipline, but one who accepts reproof is smart.
- Psalms 50:17For you hate discipline, and you cast My words behind you.
- Psalms 73:22I was brutish and ignorant. I was like a beast before You.
- Zechariah 7:11“But they refused to pay attention. They stubbornly turned their backs and stopped their ears from hearing.
- John 3:19“Now this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and men loved the darkness instead of the light, because their deeds were evil.
- Proverbs 1:25since you ignore all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
- Proverbs 6:23For the mitzvah is a lamp, Torah a light, and corrective discipline the way of life,
- Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves knowledge loves correction, but whoever hates reproof is stupid.
- Proverbs 13:18He who spurns discipline comes to poverty and shame, but whoever accepts correction will be honored.
- Genesis 19:9“Get out of the way!” they said, and they said, “This one came as an outsider and dares to judge! Now we’ll treat you worse than them!” So they strongly pressed against the man, Lot, and moved in close to break the door down.
- Exodus 2:13Then he went out the following day, and saw two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the guilty one, “Why are you beating your companion?”
- 2 Chronicles 24:20Then the Ruach Elohim came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the kohen. He stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you transgress the mitzvot of Adonai? You will not succeed. Because you have forsaken Adonai, He has also forsaken you.’”
- 2 Chronicles 25:16But while he was still speaking to him, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you a counselor to the king? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped after he said, “Now I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have acted this way and have not listened to my counsel.”
- 2 Chronicles 33:10Adonai spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of Adonai rose against His people, until there was no remedy.
Commentaries on Proverbs 5:12
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12More bitter than slavery, poverty, disease, will be the bitterness of self-reproach, the hopeless remorse that worketh death.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-23These instructions on loving one's wife and avoiding immoral women were originally for young men starting their careers (see also Proverbs 2:16–22; 7:1–27). This topic is also common in ancient Egyptian wisdom writings.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-1412-14. The ruined sinner vainly laments his neglect of warning and his sad fate in being brought to public disgrace.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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