Proverbs 5:13
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
In context
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. 16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
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- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 5:13 in the KJV
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
- NIV New International Version
— Proverbs 5:13 in the NIV
I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors.