Proverbs 5:13

13 and "I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, and I did not incline my ear to my instructors!

Proverbs 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.

Proverbs 5:13 In-Context

11 and you groan at your end, when your flesh and body are consumed,

12 and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!"

13 and "I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, and I did not incline my ear to my instructors!

14 I was almost at utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation."

15 Drink water from your [own] cistern and flowing waters from inside your own well.