Proverbs 5:13

13 I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors.

Proverbs 5:13 in Other Translations

13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.

13 Oh, why didn’t I listen to my teachers? Why didn’t I pay attention to my instructors?

13 Why didn't I listen to my mentors, or take my teachers seriously?

13 I didn't obey my teachers or listen closely to my mentors.

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 At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.

12 You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!

13 I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors.

14 And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God’s people.”

15 Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.