"And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;" — Proverbs 5:12

Proverbs 5:12 · KJV

“And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;”

— Proverbs 5:12

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Proverbs 5 — Context

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours {be} in the house of a stranger; {thy wealth: Heb. thy strength}

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

Cross References

Proverbs 12:1

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof {is} brutish.

Proverbs 1:25

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Proverbs 15:5

A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD {is} the beginning of knowledge: {but} fools despise wisdom and instruction. {the beginning: or, the principal part}

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and shame {shall be to} him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

Exodus 2:13-14

And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

Psalms 50:17

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.