Proverbs 5:12
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
In Context
11And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Cross References
Genesis 19:9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will essentially be a judge: now will we deal worse with you, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
2 Chronicles 24:20And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus says God, Why transgress all of you the commandments of the LORD, that all of you cannot prosper? because all of you have forsaken the LORD, he has also forsaken you.
2 Chronicles 33:10And the LORD spoke to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
Psalms 50:17Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:25But all of you have set at nothing all my counsel, and refused 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 →