New Revised Standard Version
Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,

Contemporary English Version
No, you would not learn, and you refused to respect the LORD.

New American Bible
Because they hated knowledge, and the fear of the LORD they did not choose.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

that

Proverbs 1:22 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

Proverbs 5:12 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?

Proverbs 6:23 That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

Job 21:14,15 Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. . . .

Psalm 50:16,17 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? . . .

Isaiah 27:11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Isaiah 30:9-12 For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children that will not hear the law of God. . . .

John 3:20 For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

Acts 7:51-54 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. . . .

not

Luke 10:42 But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Hebrews 11:25 Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God than to have the pleasure of sin for a time: