Proverbs 5:13
And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, || And have not inclined my ear to my teachers.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
In Context
12And have said, “How I have hated instruction, || And my heart has despised reproof,
14As a little thing I have been all evil, || In the midst of an assembly and a congregation.”
Cross References
1 Kings 12:14and speaks to them, according to the counsel of the boys, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, and I add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, and I discipline you with scorpions”;
1 Thessalonians 4:8He, therefore, who is despising, does not despise man, but God, who also gave His Holy Spirit to us.
Hebrews 13:7Be mindful of those leading you, who spoke to you the word of God, who, considering the outcome of [their] behavior, imitate [their] faith:
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 →