Proverbs 5:12
You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!
In context
9 lest you lose your honor to others and your dignity to one who is cruel, 10 lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another. 11 At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent. 12 You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction! 13 I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors. 14 And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God’s people.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern, running 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;
- ESV English Standard Version
— Proverbs 5:12 in the ESV
and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!