Good News TranslationConceited people do not like to be corrected; they never ask for advice from those who are wiser.
New Revised Standard Version
Scoffers do not like to be rebuked; they will not go to the wise.
Contemporary English Version
Those who sneer at others don't like to be corrected, and they won't ask help from someone with sense.
New American Bible
Scoffers do not love reproof; to the wise they will not go.
Douay-Rheims Bible
A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go to the wise.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go to the wise.
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Proverbs 15:10 Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof shall die.
Proverbs 9:7,8 Rebuke not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. . . .
Amos 5:10 They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly.
John 3:18-21 He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. . . .
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,
2 Timothy 4:3 For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears:
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2 Chronicles 18:7 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat: There is one man, of whom we may ask the will of the Lord: but I hate him, for he never prophesieth good to me, but always evil: and it is Micheas the son of Jemla. And Josaphat said: Speak not thus, O king.
Job 21:14 Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
