More bitter than slavery, poverty, disease, will be the bitterness of self-reproach, the hopeless remorse that worketh death.

How have I hated instruction.—The last stage of misery is the remorse which comes too late .

And say, how have I hated instruction
To live virtuously, and avoid the adulterous woman; this he says, as wondering…

Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some interpret "the adulterous woman" mentioned here as idolatry or…