Proverbs 5:12

12 "Oh, how I hated discipline! How my heart despised correction!

Proverbs 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.

Proverbs 5:12 In-Context

10 or strangers will benefit from your strength and you will have to work hard in a pagan's house.

11 Then you will groan when your end comes, when your body and flesh are consumed. You will say,

12 "Oh, how I hated discipline! How my heart despised correction!

13 I didn't listen to what my teachers said to me, nor did I keep my ear open to my instructors.

14 I almost reached total ruin in the assembly and in the congregation."