Proverbs 6:29 (BSB)
So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
From Proverbs 6. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 6:29
- 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 6:29: Men do not despise a thief, if he steal,.... They do not discommend or reproach him for it, or fix a mark of infamy upon him, or expose him to public shame by whipping him; but rather excuse him and pity him when it appears what his case is, what put him upon it, and that he had no other intention in it than to...
- 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?