Proverbs 15:12

WEB

¹²A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

KJV

¹²A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

BSB

¹²A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.

FBV

¹²Scoffers don't like to be corrected, so they don't go to the wise for advice.

Extra References

Amos 5:10

¹⁰They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Job 21:14

¹⁴^[+] They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

2 Timothy 4:3

³For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

Proverbs 9:7-8

⁷One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. ⁸Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

⁷The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil. He is Micaiah the son of Imla.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

John 7:7

⁷The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

Proverbs 15:10

¹⁰There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way. Whoever hates reproof shall die.

John 3:18-21

¹⁸He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God. ¹⁹This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil. ²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. ²¹But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”