Some Thoughts From Proverbs 5

Proverbs 5:12

¹² and you say, “How I hated discipline,
    and my heart despised reproof”!

As the word love, so is hate.  It has the same meaning in the Old Testament and the New.

The Scriptures are replete with the use of this word.  “You that love the Lord, hate evil”; “Esau have I hated”.  In the New Testament, “Whoever hates his brother”; “The world hates you”.  So it is frequently used and is an expressive term. 

First it is not an emotion.

Secondly it is ethical.

Thirdly it is intellectual.

Fourthly it is never excusable.

Fifth, it is basic as a cause of evil.

What are we to conclude?  When it is written that God hates Esau, this is His purpose toward Esau that is revealed, not a sinister emotion.