Proverbs 5:12
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
In Context
11At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
13I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
Cross References
Genesis 19:9“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
2 Chronicles 24:20Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’”
2 Chronicles 33:10And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.
Psalms 50:17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 1:25because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
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 →