How have I hated instruction! oh what a mad beast have I been, to hate and slight the fair warnings which were given me, and against mine own knowledge, to run headlong into this pit of destruction! which are not the words of a true penitent mourning for and turning from his sin, but only of a man who is grieved for the sad effects of his delightful lusts, and tormented with the horror of his own guilty conscience. My heart despised reproof; I did with my whole heart abhor all admonitions.
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Proverbs 5:12
12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;