Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:
They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,
They do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry:
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.
Voices4
The fault is not great when someone has been found stealing, etc. Theft is not considered a great fault by its own estimation, but by comparison with a greater sin, that is, adultery; as it is said to Jerusalem who sinned more grievously, Sodomy is …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735patristic
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Men do not despise a thief if he steal - Every man pities the poor culprit who was perishing for lack of food, and stole to satisfy his hunger; yet no law clears him: he is bound to make restitution; in some cases double, in others quadruple and quintuple; and if he have not property enough to make restitution, to be sold for a bondsman; Exo 22:1-4; Lev 25:39.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
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.
The walk4
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Job 38:39Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
leads to
The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God.
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches5
Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.
or anything else about which he has sworn falsely. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value, and pay it to the owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.
As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
