Proverbs 6:27
Can you carry hot coals in your pocket and not be burned [RHQ]?
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
In Context
28Can you walk on burning coals and not scorch/burn your feet?
Cross References
Job 31:12My committing adultery would produce in me a fire like [MET] the fire that burns people in hell, and it would burn up everything that I own.
James 3:5Similarly, although our tongues are very small, if we do not control them, we can harm many people by what we proudly say [MTY]. Think also about how just a small flame of fire can cause a large forest (OR, a large area of brushwood) to burn.
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 →