Mishle 5:13

13 And have not obeyed the voice of my morim (teachers), nor inclined mine ear to the ones who were my melamed!

Mishle 5:13 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 5:13

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers
Parents, tutors, masters, and ministers of the word; neither regarded the advice of parents, nor the instructions of tutors, nor the commands of masters, nor the sermons of ministers: these are all lost on some persons; they are proof against them all; these make no impressions upon them, and are of no use to them; nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
or to my masters, as the Targum and Vulgate Latin version; turned away the ear from them, stopped it to them, and would not hear what they had to say; at least would not receive it, and act according to it.

Mishle 5:13 In-Context

11 And thou mourn at the acharit (last, latter end, future), when thy basar and thy body are consumed,

12 And say, How have I hated musar, and my lev spurned tokhakhat (reproof);

13 And have not obeyed the voice of my morim (teachers), nor inclined mine ear to the ones who were my melamed!

14 I was at the brink of all rah (evil, ruin) in the midst of the kahal (congregation) and edah (assembly).

15 Drink mayim out of thine own bor (cistern), and running waters out of thine own well.