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Pr 5:12 King James And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
The ruined sinner vainly laments his neglect of warning and his sad fate in being brought to public disgrace.
 
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30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
14 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
1 Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
14 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
23 And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
8 The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.