Proverbs 6:31

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house. BUT (IF) HE BE FOUND, HE SHALL RESTORE SEVENFOLD; HE SHALL GIVE ALL THE SUBSTANCE OF HIS HOUSE. Exodus 22:1 prescribes five-fold, four-fold, and two-fold restitution in the different cases of theft. "Seven-fold," therefore, means plenary and perfect restitution, seven being the number for perfection. The thief who robs through hunger has to make restitution to the last penny of his property. Still his need causes pity to be felt for him, and his life is spared....

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....

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

BUT [IF] HE BE FOUND, HE SHALL RESTORE SEVENFOLD,.... According to the law in Exodus 22:1; in case of theft double was to be restored, if the theft was found alive in his hand; and in some cases fourfold and fivefold. Aben Ezra observing that double and fivefold being near together in the law, joins them, and so makes sevenfold. Some think Solomon has reference to a law in other nations, which obliged to a sevenfold restoration; or that the penalty was increased in his time, but neither appears; rather the meaning is, that a thief should make restoration according to law as often as he is found guilty, be it seven times, or seventy times seven, Matthew 18:21; or the sense is, that be should make perfect restoration, full restitution as the law requires: but then this finding: him is not to be understood of fi

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....

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)....

IF HE BE FOUND, HE SHALL RESTORE SEVENFOLD— The law, Exodus 22:1 did not oblige the thief to restore sevenfold, but only five oxen for one, or, in another case, only double: wherefore some commentators think that the word _sevenfold,_ is only used as an indefinite number. "He shall restore the value of that which he has taken, and much more:" others would render it, _If he be found out seven times, he shall restore as often, till he give all the substance of his house._ But some have thought that the wise man speaks not of that restitution which the law requires, but of that which either the wronged person, being powerful, might force the thief to make, or which the thief would willingly give, rather than be exposed to public shame; as appears by the following clause, wherein he adds to this sevenfold restitution _all his substance,_ which no law of God or man required....

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....

DISSUASIVES FROM HURTFUL THINGS Proverbs 6:1 are inserted here from some other collection, and contain warnings against suretyships (1-5), sloth (6-11), falseness (12-15), evils which the Lordhates (16-19). At Proverbs 6:20 the thread of Proverbs 5 is resumed....