Bible verse

Proverbs 5:13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Proverbs 5:13 · BSB

Proverbs 5:13 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 5.

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?

17 Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

Read all of Proverbs 5

Proverbs 5:13 in other translations

KJV

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

ASV

Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

ERV

Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

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