Proverbs 5:12
Then you will say, “I hated it when people tried to correct me. I despised people when they reproved/rebuked me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 19:9But they replied, “Get out of our way! You are a foreigner; so you have no right to tell us what is right! If you don’t get out of our way, we will do worse things to you than we will do to them!” Then they lunged towards Lot, and tried forcefully to break down the door.
2 Chronicles 24:20Then God’s Spirit came upon Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the Supreme Priest. He stood up front of the people and said, “This is what God says: ‘Why are you disobeying what I, Yahweh, have commanded? You have abandoned me, so I will abandon you.’”
2 Chronicles 33:10Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and the people of Judah, but they paid no attention.
Psalms 50:17because you have refused to allow me to discipline you, and you have rejected what I told you to do.
Proverbs 1:7If you want to be wise, you must begin by revering Yahweh. Only foolish people despise wisdom and good advice/discipline.
Proverbs 1:25I tried to advise you, but you refused to listen to me. I tried to correct you, but you rejected what I told you.
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 →