Proverbs 1:25

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Ver. 25. But ye have set at naught.] As those recusant a guests in the Gospel that pretended they therefore came not, because they had bought farms and oxen; but indeed it was because their farms and oxen had bought them. They had either so much to do, or so little to do, that they could not make use of so fair an offer, so sweet advice and advantage.

And would none of my reproof.] Ruinam praecedunt stillicidia. It is a sure presage and desert of ruin, when men will not be ruled. Pro 29:1 The cypress, the more it is watered, the more it is withered. The tree that is not for fruit, is for the fire. The earth that beareth thorns and briars only is rejected. Heb 6:8

a One who refuses to submit to some authority, comply with some regulation or request, etc.