Proverbs 6:30 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 6:30

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

KJV

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ASV

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:

WEB

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

YLT

They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,

DBT

They do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry:

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Proverbs 30:9
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Exodus 22:7
If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
Leviticus 6:5
Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
Job 38:39
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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We are here dissuaded from sin very much by arguments borrowed from our secular interests, for it is not only represented as damning in the other world, but as impoverishing in this.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

5 ), and then showed him that his sin was more exceedingly sinful than that. First, It is a greater reproach to a man's reason, for he cannot excuse it, as a thief may, by saying that it was to satisfy his hunger, but must own that it was to gratify a brutish lust which would break the hedge of God's law, not for want, but for wantonness.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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