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Proverbs 5

Prov. 5:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Howt have I hated
sane' (Hebrew #8130)
to hate (personally)
KJV usage: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-nay'
Origin: a primitive root
instruction
muwcar (Hebrew #4148)
properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint
KJV usage: bond, chastening ((-eth)), chastisement, check, correction, discipline, doctrine, instruction, rebuke.
Pronounce: moo-sawr'
Origin: from 3256
, and my heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
despised
na'ats (Hebrew #5006)
to scorn; or (Ecclesiastes 12:5) by interchange for 5132, to bloom
KJV usage: abhor, (give occasion to) blaspheme, contemn, despise, flourish, X great, provoke.
Pronounce: naw-ats'
Origin: a primitive root
v reproof
towkechah (Hebrew #8433)
from 3198; chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)
KJV usage: argument, X chastened, correction, reasoning, rebuke, reproof, X be (often) reproved.
Pronounce: to-kay-khaw'
Origin: and towkachath {to-kakh'-ath}
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Prov. 1:7,22,29‑30• 7The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
22How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?
29Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
30they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:
(Prov. 1:7,22,29‑30)
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Prov. 15:5• 5A fool despiseth his father's instruction; but he that regardeth reproof becometh prudent. (Prov. 15:5)
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Psa. 50:17• 17Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee? (Psa. 50:17)
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Psa. 73:22• 22Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee. (Psa. 73:22)
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Zech. 7:11‑14• 11But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear.
12And they made their heart as an adamant, that they should not hear the law, and the words that Jehovah of hosts sent by his Spirit by the hand of the former prophets: therefore was there great wrath from Jehovah of hosts.
13And it came to pass, like as he called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, saith Jehovah of hosts;
14and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not, and the land was desolate after them, so that no one passed through nor returned; and they laid the pleasant land desolate.
(Zech. 7:11‑14)
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John 3:19‑20• 19And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.
20For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;
(John 3:19‑20)
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Prov. 1:25• 25and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: (Prov. 1:25)
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Prov. 6:23• 23For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: (Prov. 6:23)
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Prov. 12:1• 1Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish. (Prov. 12:1)
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Prov. 13:18• 18Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction; but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. (Prov. 13:18)
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Gen. 19:9• 9And they said, Back there! And they said again, This one came to sojourn, and he must be a judge? Now we will deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man--on Lot; and drew near to break the door. (Gen. 19:9)
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Ex. 2:13‑14• 13And he went out on the second day, and behold, two Hebrew men were quarrelling; and he said to him that was in the wrong, Why art thou smiting thy neighbour?
14And he said, Who made thee ruler and judge over us? dost thou intend to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? Then Moses feared, and said, Surely the matter is known.
(Ex. 2:13‑14)
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2 Chron. 24:20‑22• 20And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood up above the people and said unto them, Thus saith God: Wherefore do ye transgress the commandments of Jehovah? And ye cannot prosper; for ye have forsaken Jehovah, and he hath forsaken you.
21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.
22And king Joash remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah see and require it!
(2 Chron. 24:20‑22)
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2 Chron. 25:16• 16And it came to pass as he talked with him, that Amaziah said to him, Hast thou been made the king's counsellor? Forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbore, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel. (2 Chron. 25:16)
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2 Chron. 33:10‑11• 10And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people; but they did not hearken.
11And Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with fetters, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
(2 Chron. 33:10‑11)
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2 Chron. 36:16• 16But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy. (2 Chron. 36:16)
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Jer. 44:4• 4And I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing which I hate! (Jer. 44:4)
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Zech. 1:4‑6• 4Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings; but they did not hearken nor attend unto me, saith Jehovah.
5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
6But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? And they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
(Zech. 1:4‑6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!