Proverbs 5:12
And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
In Context
11While thou moanest at thy end, when thy flesh and thy body are coming to their end,
13While I hearkened not to the voice of my instructors, and to my teachers I inclined not my ear;
Cross References
Genesis 19:9And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one man came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge; now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed sorely upon the man Lot, and they came near to break the door.
2 Chronicles 24:20And the spirit of God endued Zechariah the son of Yehoyada' the priest, and he stood up above the people, and he said unto them, Thus hath said the [true] God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord? ye cannot prosper so; because [as] ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.
2 Chronicles 33:10And the Lord spoke to Menasseh, and to his people; but they listened not.
Psalms 50:17And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools [alone] despise.
Proverbs 1:25And ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would not accept my admonition:
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 →