Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

A scoffer does not like to be reproved. He will not go to the wise.

New American Standard Bible

A scoffer does not love one who reproves him,
He will not go to the wise.

King James Version

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Holman Bible

A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him;
he will not consult the wise.

International Standard Version

The arrogant mocker never loves the one who corrects him; he will not inquire of the wise.

American Standard Version

A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise.

Amplified


A scoffer [unlike a wise man] resents one who rebukes him and tries to teach him;
Nor will he go to the wise [for counsel and instruction].

Bible in Basic English

The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.

Darby Translation

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him; he will not go unto the wise.

Julia Smith Translation

He mocking will not love him reproving him: to the wise he will not go.

King James 2000

A scoffer loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A scoffer does not like {his rebuke}; to the wise he will not go.

Modern King James verseion

A scorner does not love one who corrects him, nor will he go to the wise.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A scornful body loveth not one that rebuketh him; neither will he come among the wise.

NET Bible

The scorner does not love one who corrects him; he will not go to the wise.

New Heart English Bible

A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

The Emphasized Bible

A scoffer, loveth not, one who reproveth him, unto the wise, doth he not go.

Webster

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go to the wise.

World English Bible

A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Youngs Literal Translation

A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אהב אהב 
'ahab 
Usage: 212

him neither will he go
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

Verse Info

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

11 Sheol and Abaddon are before LORD. How much more then the hearts of the sons of men! 12 A scoffer does not like to be reproved. He will not go to the wise. 13 A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.



Cross References

Amos 5:10

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.

2 Chronicles 18:7

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of LORD, but I hate him. For he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil; the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said

Job 21:14

And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

Proverbs 9:7-8

He who corrects a scoffer gets himself reviling. And he who reproves a wicked man [gets] himself a bruise.

Proverbs 15:10

There is grievous correction for him who forsakes the way. He who hates reproof shall die.

John 3:18-21

He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

2 Timothy 4:3

For there will be time when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but they will accumulate teachers to themselves according to their own desires, who tickle the ear,

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