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Proverbs 5:12
And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
Proverbs 5:12 · Geneva Bible
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Proverbs 5:12 in other translations
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
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In context
9 Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:
10 Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,
11 And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)
12 And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
13 And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!
14 I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.
15 Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.
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