Proverbs 6:30
The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul: The fault is not so great, etc... The sin of theft is not so great, as to be compared with adultery: especially when a person pressed with hunger (which is the case here spoken of) steals to satisfy nature. Moreover the damage done by theft may much more easily be repaired, than the wrong done by adultery. But this does not hinder, but that theft also is a mortal sin, forbidden by one of the ten commandments.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
In Context
29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.
31And if he be taken, he shall restore sevenfold, and shall give up all the substance of his house.
Cross References
Leviticus 6:5All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the fifth part besides, to the owner, whom he wronged.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:21-35
Parental Cautions; Cautions against Impurity. 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 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 tongue of a strange… Read the whole commentary →