Proverbs 5:11–12
When your flesh and your body are consumed,
“How I have hated instruction,
And my heart despised correction!
Proverbs 5:11–12 — The New International Version (NIV)
11 At the end of your life you will groan,
when your flesh and body are spent.
12 You will say, “How I hated discipline!
How my heart spurned correction!
Proverbs 5:11–12 — English Standard Version (ESV)
11 and at the end of your life you groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, “How I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof!
Proverbs 5:11–12 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
11 And thou mourn at the last,
When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12 And say, How have I hated instruction,
And my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 5:11–12 — New Living Translation (NLT)
11 In the end you will groan in anguish
when disease consumes your body.
12 You will say, “How I hated discipline!
If only I had not ignored all the warnings!
Proverbs 5:11–12 — New Century Version (NCV)
11 You will groan at the end of your life
when your health is gone.
12 Then you will say, “I hated being told what to do!
I would not listen to correction!
Proverbs 5:11–12 — American Standard Version (ASV)
11 And thou mourn at thy latter end,
When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12 And say, How have I hated instruction,
And my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 5:11–12 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
11 and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed; 12 and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
Proverbs 5:11–12 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
11 Then you will groan when your end comes,
when your body and flesh are consumed.
You will say,
12 “Oh, how I hated discipline!
How my heart despised correction!
Proverbs 5:11–12 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
11 At the end of your life, you will lament
when your physical body has been consumed,
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.
Proverbs 5:11–12 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
11 and at the end of your life you will groan,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline,
and my heart despised reproof!
Proverbs 5:11–12 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
11 and you groan at your end,
when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and say “How I hated discipline,
and I despised reproof!”
Proverbs 5:11–12 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
11 At the end of your life you will groan.
Your skin and your body will be worn out.
12 You will say, “How I hated to take advice!
How my heart refused to be corrected!
Proverbs 5:11–12 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
11 And you groan at your final end,
When your flesh and your body are consumed;
12 And you say, “How I have hated instruction!
And my heart spurned reproof!