Catholic Public Domain Version
"“Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction? "
— Proverbs 5:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;”
“And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof; ”
“and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;”
“And you will say,“How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!”
“Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,”
“And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;”
“And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;”
Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.
Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,
and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:
“Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?
And why have I not listened to the voice of those who guided me? And why has my ear not inclined to my teachers?
I have almost been with all evil in the midst of the church and of the assembly.”
Drink water from your own cistern and from the springs of your own well.