Proverbs 5:12 - Exposition

Self-reproach accompanies the unavailable groaning. And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof! i.e. how could it ever come to pass that I have acted in such a senseless and inexcusable manner, that I have hated instruction ( musar, disciplina, παιδεία ), the warning voice which dissuaded me from going with the harlot, and in my heart despised, i.e. rejected inwardly, whatever my outward demeanour may have been, the reproof which followed after I had been with her! Despised ( naats ) , as in Proverbs 1:30 ; comp. also Proverbs 15:5 , "A fool despiseth his father's instructions."