Proverbi 5:12

12 E non dica: Come ebbi io in odio l’ammaestramento? E come rigettò il mio cuore la correzione?

Proverbi 5:12 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 5:12

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. Gersom interprets it of the instruction of the law; but it is much better to understand it of the instruction of the Gospel; which the carnal mind of man is enmity unto, and which they are so stupid as to abhor; when it is of so much usefulness to preserve from error and heresy, superstition, will worship, and idolatry; and my heart despised reproof;
for following the whorish woman; and which was secretly despised in the heart, and heartily too, if not expressed with the mouth: it is one part of the Gospel ministry to reprove for false doctrine and false worship, though it generally falls under the contempt of the erroneous and idolatrous.

Proverbi 5:12 In-Context

10 Che talora i forestieri non si sazino delle tue facoltà; E che le tue fatiche non vadano nella casa dello strano;

11 E che tu non gema alla fine, Quando la tua carne ed il tuo corpo saranno consumati;

12 E non dica: Come ebbi io in odio l’ammaestramento? E come rigettò il mio cuore la correzione?

13 E come non ascoltai la voce di quelli che mi ammaestravano, E non inchinai il mio orecchio a quelli che m’insegnavano?

14 Quasi che sono stato in ogni male, In mezzo della raunanza e della congregazione.