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Selected Verse: Proverbs 6:27 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 6:27 |
Strong Concordance |
Can a man [0376] take [02846] fire [0784] in his bosom [02436], and his clothes [0899] not be burned [08313]? |
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King James |
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| The guilt and danger most obvious. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The moral necessity of ruinous consequences which the sin of adultery draws after it, is illustrated by examples of natural cause and effect necessarily connected:
27 Can one take fire in his bosom
And his clothes not be burned?
28 Or can any one walk over burning coals
And his feet not be burned?
29 So he that goeth to his neighbour's wife,
No one remains unpunished that toucheth her.
We would say: Can any one, without being, etc.; the former is the Semitic "extended (paratactic)
(Note: The παρατακτικὸς χρόνος denotes the imperfect tense, because it is still extended to the future.)
construction." The first אישׁ has the conjunctive Shalsheleth. חתה signifies to seize and draw forth a brand or coal with the fire-tongs or shovel (מחתּה, the instrument for this); cf. Arab. khât, according to Lane, "he seized or snatched away a thing;" the form יחתּה is Kal, as יחנה (vid., Khler, De Tetragammate, 1867, p. 10). חיק (properly indentation) is here not the lap, but, as Isa 40:11, the bosom.
Pro 6:28
A second example of destructive consequences naturally following a certain course is introduced with אם of the double question. גּחלים (from גּחל, after the form פּחם, but for which גּחלת is used) is the regular modification of gaḥḥalı̂m (Gesen. 27, 2). The fem. ורגליו is followed here (cf. on the other hand Pro 1:16) by the rhythmically full-sounding form תכּוינה (retaining the distinction of gender), from כּוה, Arab. kwy, to burn so that a brand-mark (כּי, Isa 3:24, cauterium) remains.
Pro 6:29
The instruction contained in these examples here follows: τὸ εἰς πῦρ καὶ εἰς γυναῖκα ἐμπεσεῖν Ἴσον ὑπάρχει (Pythagoras in Maximi Eclog. c. 39). בּוא אל is here, as the second in Psa 51:1, a euphemism, and נגע בּ, to come in contact with, means, as נגע אל, to touch, Gen 20:6. He who goes in to his neighbour's wife shall not do so with impunity (נקי). Since both expressions denote fleshly nearness and contact, so it is evident he is not guiltless. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Can a man take fire - These were proverbial expressions, the meaning of which was plain to every capacity. |
6 And God [0430] said [0559] unto him in a dream [02472], Yea [01571], I know [03045] that thou didst [06213] this in the integrity [08537] of thy heart [03824]; for I also withheld [02820] thee from sinning [02398] against me: therefore suffered [05414] I thee not to touch [05060] her.
1 To the chief Musician [05329], A Psalm [04210] of David [01732], when Nathan [05416] the prophet [05030] came [0935] unto him, after he had gone in [0935] to Bathsheba [01339]. Have mercy [02603] upon me, O God [0430], according to thy lovingkindness [02617]: according unto the multitude [07230] of thy tender mercies [07356] blot out [04229] my transgressions [06588].
29 So he that goeth in [0935] to his neighbour's [07453] wife [0802]; whosoever toucheth [05060] her shall not be innocent [05352].
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell [01314] there shall be stink [04716]; and instead of a girdle [02290] a rent [05364]; and instead of well set [04639] hair [04748] baldness [07144]; and instead of a stomacher [06614] a girding [04228] of sackcloth [08242]; and burning [03587] instead of beauty [03308].
16 For their feet [07272] run [07323] to evil [07451], and make haste [04116] to shed [08210] blood [01818].
28 Can one [0376] go [01980] upon hot coals [01513], and his feet [07272] not be burned [03554]?
11 He shall feed [07462] his flock [05739] like a shepherd [07462]: he shall gather [06908] the lambs [02922] with his arm [02220], and carry [05375] them in his bosom [02436], and shall gently lead [05095] those that are with young [05763].