Teks -- Proverbs 6:27 (NET)

6:27 Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Pro 6:27-29

The guilt and danger most obvious.

Clarke: Pro 6:27 - Can a man take fire

Can a man take fire - These were proverbial expressions, the meaning of which was plain to every capacity.

TSK: Pro 6:27

Job 31:9-12; Hos 7:4-7; Jam 3:5

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Pro 6:27

The question implies a denial; he cannot escape burning. No more can he who burns in lust avoid destruction.

Haydock: Pro 6:27 - Burn

Burn. No one can deal with an adulteress without guilt. (Menochius) ---

All probable occasions of sin must be shunned. (Worthington)

Gill: Pro 6:27 - Can a man take fire in his bosom // and his clothes not be burned

Can a man take fire in his bosom,.... A whore is compared to fire, and is so called by the poets ^o; and it is a saying of Pythagoras,

"it is a like thing to fall into fire and into a woman ^p;''

the Hebrew words אש, "esh", "fire", and אישה, "ishah", "a woman", have some affinity in sound; and the phrase of taking it "into the bosom" fitly expresses the impure embraces of a harlot;

and his clothes not be burned? he cannot, it is impossible; and equally vain is it to think that a man can commit whoredom and it not be known, or he not hurt by it in his name and substance, or in his body, soul, and life.