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The Anguish of Late Regret
All commentators agree that this verse depicts the cry of profound, late-stage regret. It's a moment of horrifying clarity where a person looks back, stunned by their own foolishness in rejecting wise instruction. Scholars describe this as the 'bitterness of self-reproach' and the 'remorse which comes too late,' a misery that is worse than poverty or disease.
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Albert Barnes
On Proverbs 5:12
18th Century
Theologian
More bitter than slavery, poverty, disease, will be the bitterness of self-reproach, the hopeless remorse that worketh death.
Charles Ellicott
On Proverbs 5:12
19th Century
Bishop
How have I hated instruction.—The last stage of misery is the remorse which comes too late ().
John Gill
On Proverbs 5:12
17th Century
Pastor
And say, how have I hated instruction
To live virtuously, and avoid the adulterous woman; this he says, as wondering…
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Matthew Henry
On Proverbs 5:1–14
17th Century
Minister
Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some interpret "the adulterous woman" mentioned here as idolatry or…