Proverbs 5:11-13

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent, and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Proverbs 5

2 songs meet this passage

  • House of the Rising Sun · The Animals

    resonates with Proverbs 5:11-13

    The late-life regret and warning to the next generation matches the wisdom tradition's pattern of a ruined life pleading with others to avoid its path.

  • “Qué tarde comprendí”

    Estos Celos · Vicente Fernández

    resonates with Proverbs 5:11-12

    The singer's belated realization mirrors the proverb's warning of groaning at the end when one ignored wisdom in time.

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