Proverbs 5:12

Proverbs 5:12 in other translations

What does Proverbs 5:12 mean?

Proverbs 5:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 5:12

• Proverbs 12:1

  Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

• Proverbs 1:7

  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

• Proverbs 15:5

  A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

• Proverbs 1:25

  But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

• Proverbs 1:22

  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 13:18

  Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

• John 3:19-20

  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

• Psalms 50:17

  Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

• Zechariah 1:4-6

  Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

• Jeremiah 44:4

  Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

• Exodus 2:13-14

  And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

• Psalms 73:22

  So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).

Context

• Proverbs 5:11

  And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

• Proverbs 5:12

  And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

• Proverbs 5:13

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

Proverbs 5:12 in other languages