Proverbs 5:12

Alas, why hated I nurture? why did my heart dispise correction?

Bible (Bishops')

In The King James Version

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

In Context

11Yea, that thou mourne not at the last, when thou hast spent thy bodye and lustie youth, and then say:

13Wherefore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, and hearkened not vnto them that enfourmed me?

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Cross References

Genesis 19:9And they sayde, stande backe: And they said agayne, he came in as one to soiourne, and wyll he be nowe a iudge? we wyll surely deale worse with thee then with them. And they preassed sore vpon the man [euen] Lot, and came to breake vp the doore.

Proverbs 1:7The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.

Proverbs 1:25But all my counsels haue ye dispised, and set my correction at naught:

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 →

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