Proverbs 6:30
They do not despise the thief, || When he steals to fill his soul when he is hungry,
Literal Standard Version
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 [is] he who has gone in to the wife of his neighbor, || None who touches her is innocent.
31And being found he repays sevenfold, || He gives all the substance of his house.
Cross References
Leviticus 6:5or all that concerning which he swears falsely, he has even repaid it in its principal, and he is adding to it its fifth; he gives it to him whose it [is] in the day of his guilt-offering.
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 →