Proverbs 6:27 (BSB)

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 6:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 6:20-35: Here is, I. A general exhortation faithfully to adhere to the word of God and to take it for our guide in all our actions. 1. We must look upon the word of God both as a light (Pro 6:23) and as a law, Pro 6:20, Pro 6:23.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 6:27: Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? He cannot; if he sets his feet upon them, and continues them ever so little on them, they will be burnt, and much more if he walks upon them; and so if a man gives way to the burning lusts of his heart after a whorish woman, and commits adultery with her, though...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 6:27: Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? (n) Meaning, that she will never cease till she has brought you to begging, and then seek your destruction.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 6:27-29: Pro 6:27-29 The moral necessity of ruinous consequences which the sin of adultery draws after it, is illustrated by examples of natural cause and effect necessarily connected: 27 Can one take fire in his bosom And his clothes not be burned? 28 Or can any one walk over burning coals And his feet not be burned?