11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent, 12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
Proverbs 5:11–13
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Proverbs 1:24–26
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Psalms 50:16–18
16 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? 17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. 18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
Proverbs 1:29–31
29 For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD. 30 They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. 31 So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Jeremiah 22:20–22
20 Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed. 21 I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice. 22 The win…
Leviticus 26:22–24
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Baruch 3:11–13
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2 Esdras 9:10–12
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Job 36:20–22
20 Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes. 21 Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction. 22 Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?
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