Proverbs 5:12

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

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

American King James Version (AKJV)

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

American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Basic English Translation (BBE)

And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

Webster's Revision

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;

English Revised Version (ERV)

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

Definitions for Proverbs 5:12

Reproof - A scolding; rebuke.

Barnes's Proverbs 5:12 Bible Commentary

More bitter than slavery, poverty, disease, will be the bitterness of self-reproach, the hopeless remorse that worketh death.