नीतिवचन 5:12
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Context
This verse from नीतिवचन Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. An extended warning against the adulteress whose lips drip honey but whose end is bitter as wormwood. The son is urged to stay far from her door and drink from his own cistern — rejoice in the wife of his …
अन्य अनुवाद
And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
क्रॉस संदर्भ
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this …
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.