Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?
Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
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.
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Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
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
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
