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.(A)
13 I didn’t obey my teachers
or listen closely[a] to my instructors.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:13 Lit or turn my ear

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!(A)
13 I would not obey my teachers
    or turn my ear to my instructors.

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