Proverbs 6:35

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. HE WILL NOT REGARD ANY RANSOM - i:e., any sum, however large, paid in expiation of thy adultery (Exodus 21:30). NEITHER WILL HE REST CONTENT, THOUGH THOU GIVEST MANY GIFTS - to bribe the husband not to prosecute the adulterer, or the judges not to exact full punishment for the adultery. So the Hebrew for "gifts" [ shochad (H7810)] is used (Deuteronomy 16:19; Deuteronomy 27:25; Psalms 15:5)....

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 35. _HE WILL NOT REGARD ANY RANSOM_] This is an injury that admits of _no compensation_. No _gifts_ can satisfy a man for the injury his honour has sustained; and to take a _bribe_ or a _ransom_, would be setting up _chastity_ at a price....

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

HE WILL NOT REGARD ANY RANSOM,.... So that his case is much worse than, a thief's; if he is taken, he makes restitution according to law, and he is freed, and no more is said and done to him; and, at most, it is but parting with all the goods in his house; but in this case it will not do. In the Hebrew text it is, "he will not accept the face of any ransom" z; that is, as the Targum paraphrases it, "he will not accept the face of anyone that gives a gift:'' he will have no respect unto him for the sake of the gift; whatever gift is offered, be it what it will, for the ransom of his life from death, it will be disregarded; NEITHER WILL HE REST CONTENT, THOUGH THOU GIVEST MANY GIFTS; increase them, and keep continually giving; nothing but the life of the adulterer will satisfy him, which he will either take away himself, or obtain it in a way of legal prosecution. How foolish therefore...

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)....

FOR JEALOUSY IS THE RAGE OF A MAN— The wise man carries on the contrast between the punishment of theft and adultery. "The theft (says he) may be ransomed by making restitution; but he that violates the marriage-bed raises such an inexorable spirit of revenge in the bosom of the injured, as nothing but the utmost rigour of the law, the death of the offender, will satisfy." Schultens observes, that no version can express the force of the Hebrew; _The inflammation of jealousy is the setting a man on fire:_ as much as to say, that the jealousy with which a man is inflamed, renders him wholly on fire, and so heated with that fire as never to be appeased, but borne with inexpiable violence to the revenge of his defiled bed. Houbigant renders it, _For the fury of the husband shall grow hot._ The principal points of instruction to be learned from this chapter are these: care of our family, caut...

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....