Sprueche 5:12

12 und sprechen: "Ach, wie habe ich die Zucht gehaßt und wie hat mein Herz die Strafe verschmäht!

Sprueche 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.

Sprueche 5:12 In-Context

10 daß sich nicht Fremde von deinem Vermögen sättigen und deine Arbeit nicht sei in eines andern Haus,

11 und müssest hernach seufzen, wenn du Leib und Gut verzehrt hast,

12 und sprechen: "Ach, wie habe ich die Zucht gehaßt und wie hat mein Herz die Strafe verschmäht!

13 wie habe ich nicht gehorcht der Stimme meiner Lehrer und mein Ohr nicht geneigt zu denen, die mich lehrten!

14 Ich bin schier in alles Unglück gekommen vor allen Leuten und allem Volk."