Proverbs 5:12
And have said, “How I have hated instruction, || And my heart has despised reproof,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
In Context
11And you have howled in your latter end, || In the consumption of your flesh and your food,
13And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, || And have not inclined my ear to my teachers.
Cross References
Genesis 19:9And they say, “Come near here”; they also say, “This one has come to sojourn, and he certainly judges! Now, we do evil to you more than [to] them”; and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come near to break the door.
2 Chronicles 24:20and the Spirit of God has clothed Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stands above the people, and says to them, “Thus said God: Why are you transgressing the commands of YHWH, and do not prosper? Because you have forsaken YHWH, He forsakes you.”
2 Chronicles 33:10And YHWH speaks to Manasseh and to his people, and they have not attended,
Psalms 50:17Indeed, you have hated instruction, || And cast My words behind you.
Proverbs 1:7Fear of YHWH [is the] beginning of knowledge, || Fools have despised wisdom and instruction!
Proverbs 1:25And you slight all my counsel, || And you have not desired my reproof.
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 →