Proverbs 5:13

13 I would not listen to my teachers or pay attention 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 You will groan at the end of your life when your health is gone.

12 Then you will say, "I hated being told what to do! I would not listen to correction!

13 I would not listen to my teachers or pay attention to my instructors.

14 I came close to being completely ruined in front of a whole group of people."

15 Be faithful to your own wife, just as you drink water from your own well.