Bible verse
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Proverbs 5:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 5.
8 Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
9 lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
16 Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
KJV
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
ASV
And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
ERV
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
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