Proverbs 6:30
They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,
Young's Literal Translation
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 hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
31And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
Cross References
Leviticus 6:5or all that concerning which he sweareth falsely, he hath even repaid it in its principal, and its fifth he is adding to it; to him whose it [is] he giveth it 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 →