Proverbs 5:12
in Proverbs 5and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
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ASV
And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;
KJV
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
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This verse in Proverbs 5
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
How have I hated instruction
on Proverbs 5:12-14
The father stages the son's own future regret as a speech he can hear now before he lives it, a man near ruin confessing that he hated instruction and despised reproof. I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly names a public fall, not a private one, the very exposure the earlier verses warned against. Henry notes the timing: the regret arrives after the ruin, when correction can no longer undo what indulgence has done.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Why did I hate instruction? etc. He calls the instruction of ecclesiastical faith; the reproaches by which heretics are rebuked, why they withdrew from the Church, he refers to them. It is evident concerning fornicators.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And say, how have I hated instruction,.... To live virtuously, and avoid the adulterous woman; this he says, as wondering at his stupidity, folly, and madness, that he should hate and abhor that which was so much his interest to have observed.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
More bitter than slavery, poverty, disease, will be the bitterness of self-reproach, the hopeless remorse that worketh death.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
And you shall moan when your end comes The end will be that you will moan when your end comes.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְֽאָמַרְתָּ֗ | veamarta | and you will say | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֵ֭יךְ | ʾeikh | how! | H349 → | |
| שָׂנֵ֣אתִי | saneti | I hated | H8130 → | 146 times |
| מוּסָ֑ר | musar | discipline | H4148 → | 50 times |
| וְ֝תוֹכַ֗חַת | vetokhachat | and rebuke | H8433 → | 28 times |
| נָאַ֥ץ | naatz | it spurned | H5006 → | 25 times |
| לִבִּֽי׃ | libi | heart my | H3820 → | 595 times |
וְֽאָמַרְתָּ֗and you will say
veamartaH559 →5305 times
אֵ֭יךְhow!
ʾeikhH349 →
שָׂנֵ֣אתִיI hated
sanetiH8130 →146 times
מוּסָ֑רdiscipline
musarH4148 →50 times
וְ֝תוֹכַ֗חַתand rebuke
vetokhachatH8433 →28 times
נָאַ֥ץit spurned
naatzH5006 →25 times
לִבִּֽי׃heart my
libiH3820 →595 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
it leads to
- Job 28:28
And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
- Psalms 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!
- Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
- Ecclesiastes 12:13
When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
- Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
- Job 28:28
Through
Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
it leads to
- Proverbs 15:10
Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
- Proverbs 9:7–8
He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.
- Psalms 119:97–100
Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
- Proverbs 15:10
About Proverbs
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.