Proverbs 5:12
Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
In Context
11And thou mourn it the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say:
13And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not in- dined my ear to masters?
Cross References
Genesis 19:9But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a, stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. 0 And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors.
2 Chronicles 24:20The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him forsake you?
2 Chronicles 33:10And the Lord spoke to him, and to his people, and they would not hearken.
Psalms 50:17Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:25You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:2-15
Parental Instructions; Cautions against Sensuality. 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7… Read the whole commentary →