Proverbs 5:12

“And say, how have I hated instruction, etc.] 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…”

“The ruined sinner vainly laments his neglect of warning and his sad fate in being brought to public disgrace.”

“More bitter than slavery, poverty, disease, will be the bitterness of self-reproach, the hopeless remorse that worketh death. return to 'Top of Page'”

“How: Pro 1:7, Pro 1:22, Pro 1:29, Pro 1:30, Pro 15:5; Psa 50:17, Psa 73:22; Zac 7:11-14; Joh 3:19, Joh 3:20 and my: Pro 1:25, Pro 6:23, Pro 12:1, Pro 13:18; Gen 19:9; Exo 2:13, Exo 2:14; Ch2 24:20-22, Ch2 25:16; Ch2 33:10, Ch2 33:11, Ch2 36:16; Jer 44:4; Zac 1:4-6 Proverbs 5:13”

“The poet now tells those whom he warns to hear how the voluptuary, looking back on his life-course, passes sentence against himself. 12 And thou sayest, "Why have I then hated correction, And my heart despised instruction! 13 And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, Nor lent mine ear to my instructors? 14 I had almost fallen into every vice In the midst of the assembly and the congregation!" The question 12a (here more an exclamation than a question) is the combination of two: How has it become possible for me? How could it ever come to it that.... Thus also one says in Arab.: Kyf f'alat hadhâ (Fl.). The regimen of איך in 12b is becoming faint, and in 13b has disappeared. The…”