PROVERBS 5:12

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;”

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Proverbs 5:12 Translation & Meaning

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And say, וְֽאָמַרְתָּ֗ To say (used with great latitude) say
How אֵ֭יךְ How? or how!; also where How
have I hated שָׂנֵ֣אתִי To hate (personally) hated
instruction, מוּסָ֑ר Properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint instruction
and my heart לִבִּֽי׃ The heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything heart
despised נָאַ֥ץ To scorn; or (in Ecclesiastes 12:5), by interchange for H5132, to bloom despised
reproof; וְ֝תוֹכַ֗חַת Chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defense) reproof

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  • 10  Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

  • 11  And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

  • 12  And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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

  • 14  I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.




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