Proverbs 5:12
and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
In Context
11And you repent at last, when the flesh of your body is consumed,
Cross References
Genesis 19:9And they said to him, Stand back there, you came in to sojourn, was it also to judge? Now then we would harm you more than them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and they drew near to break the door.
2 Chronicles 24:20And the Spirit of God came upon Azarias the son of Jodae the priest, and he stood up above the people, and said, Thus says the Lord, Why do you⌃ transgress the commandments of the Lord? so shall you⌃ not prosper; for you⌃ have forsaken the Lord, and he will forsake you.
2 Chronicles 33:10And the Lord spoke to Manasses, and to his people: but they listened not.
Psalms 50:17Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: a broken and humbled heart God will not despise. 1
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the + 1:7 Or, sum, or, top. beginning of wisdom; and there is good understanding to all that practise it: and piety towards God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nothing wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:25but you⌃ set at nothing my counsels, and disregarded my reproofs;
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 →