Proverbs 5:12
and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
In context
9 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, 10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, 11 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, 12 and you 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 instructors. 14 I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 5:12 in the KJV
And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 5:12 in the NIV
You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!