Proverbs 6:30

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; (MEN) DO NOT DESPISE A THIEF, IF HE STEAL TO SATISFY HIS SOUL WHEN HE IS HUNGRY. Men do not think a thief to be beneath judicial cognizance, even though his theft may have had the excuse that it was to satisfy his appetite when he was hungry: how much more shall the adulterer not escape who gratuitously, and without any necessity of nature, violates his neighbour's wife!...

20-35 The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us remember Him who willingly became our Surety, when we were strangers and enemies. And shall Christians, who have such prospects, motives, and examples, be slothful and careless? Shall we neglect what is pleasing to God, and what he will graciously reward? May we closely watch every sense by which poison can enter our minds or affections....

Verse Proverbs 6:30. _MEN DO NOT DESPISE A THIEF IF HE STEAL_] Every man pities the poor culprit who was perishing for lack of food, and stole to _satisfy his hunger_; yet no law _clears_ him: he is bound to make restitution; in some cases _double_, in others _quadruple_ and _quintuple_; and if he have not property enough to make restitution, to be sold for a _bondsman_; Exodus 22:1; Leviticus 25:39....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 6:1 The sixth chapter embraces four distinct discourses, each of which is a warning. The subjects treated of are (1) suretyship (Proverbs 6:1); (2) sloth (Proverbs 6:6); (3) malice (Proverbs 6:12); and (4) adultery (Proverbs 6:20 to the end). The continuity of the subject treated of in the preceding chapter appears to be somewhat abruptly interrupted to make way for the insertion of three

[MEN] DO NOT DESPISE A THIEF, IF HE STEAL,.... They do not discommend or reproach him for it, or fix a mark of infamy upon him, or expose him to public shame by whipping him; but rather excuse him and pity him when it appears what his case is, what put him upon it, and that he had no other intention in it than to do as follows; TO SATISFY HIS SOUL; his craving appetite for food, having nothing to eat, nor no other way of getting any: the words should be supplied thus, "for he does this to satisfy his soul"; or, as the Syriac version, "for he steals to satisfy his soul": and so they are a reason why men do not despise him, nor use him ill, because it is done with no other view; not with a wicked design to hurt his neighbour, nor with a covetous intent to increase his own substance in an unlawful way, but only to satisfy nature in distress; and another reason follows, or the former confir...

CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The surety (Proverbs 6:1)_ 2. The sluggard (Proverbs 6:6) 3. The naughty, good-for-nothing person (Proverbs 6:12) 4. The strange woman (Proverbs 6:20) Proverbs 6:1. These are instructions concerning contracts, in being surety for a neighbor and the danger connected with it. Proverbs 6:6. The sluggard is commanded to go to the ant for a lesson. (See also...

A section totally dissimilar from the rest of this division of Pr. It consists of four short subsections Proverbs 6:1 against suretyship, Proverbs 6:6 against sloth, Proverbs 6:12 against talebearing, Proverbs 6:16 against seven sins. Then the subject of sexual vice is continued from Proverbs 5. Proverbs 6:1 obviously breaks the connexion, and was probably inserted after the compilation of Proverbs 6:1....

DESPISE. Hebrew. _buz_ (from _bazah),_ is here followed by (-L). for. Render it therefore: "Men will not think it. trifle (or. light matter) for. thief that he should steal: [even] to satisfy", &c.... So if he be found, &c. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....

Fourteenth Address. Chap. 6. Proverbs 6:20. _The Evil Woman_ The holy memories and sanctions of the family are invoked (Proverbs 6:20) to give weight to another earnest warning against the sin which destroys the purity and saps the foundations of family life (Proverbs 6:24)....

TEXT Proverbs 6:23-35 23. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24. To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue. 25. Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26. For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life. 27. Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes be not burned? 28. Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched? 29. So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished. 30. Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry: 31....