Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise.
New American Standard Bible
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
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.
A Conservative Version
A scoffer does not like to be reproved. He will not go to 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.
Themes
Reproof » They who give, are hated by scorners
Reproof » Those that reprove a scorner
Scorn » Those that reprove a scorner
Scorning and mocking » Those who are addicted to » Love not those who reprove
Scorning and mocking » Those who are addicted to » Go not to the wise
Topics
Interlinear
Yakach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 15:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men! 12 A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise. 13 A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.
Names
Cross References
Amos 5:10
They hate him that reproveth in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
2 Chronicles 18:7
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah: but I hate him; for he never prophesieth good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
Job 21:14
And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Proverbs 9:7-8
He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Proverbs 15:10
There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way; And he that hateth reproof shall die.
John 3:18-21
He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;