Proverbs 6:33
in Proverbs 6Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.
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ASV
Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away.
KJV
A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
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This verse in Proverbs 6
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA wound and dishonor shall he get - Among the Romans, when a man was caught in the fact, the injured husband took the law into his own hand; and a large radish was thrust up into the anus of the transgressor, which not only overwhelmed him with infamy and disgrace, but generally caused his death.
This site's exposition
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on Proverbs 6:32-35
The thief could pay his penalty and close the matter, while the adulterer “destroys himself,” and “his reproach will never be wiped away”. The chapter that told the son to free himself “like a gazelle” (6:5) closes on a debt with no release.
This site's exposition
his reproach will never be wiped away
Henry separates the guilt of adultery, which repentance can remove, from the reproach, which will never be wiped away from a man's name. David's adultery with Uriah's wife is his example. The dishonor outlives the man.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
It will be a wound to his good name, a dishonour to his family, and, though the guilt of it may be done away by repentance, the reproach of it never will, but will stick to his memory when he is gone. David's sin in the matter of Uriah was not only a perpetual blemish upon his own character, but gave occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme his name too.
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.
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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.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נֶֽגַע־ | nega'- | a wound | H5061 → | |
| וְקָל֥וֹן | vekalon | and shame | H7036 → | 17 times |
| יִמְצָ֑א | yimtza' | he will find | H4672 → | 455 times |
| וְ֝חֶרְפָּת֗וֹ | vecherpato | and reproach his | H2781 → | |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִמָּחֶֽה׃ | timacheh | it will be wiped away | H4229 → | 36 times |
נֶֽגַע־a wound
nega'-H5061 →
וְקָל֥וֹןand shame
vekalonH7036 →17 times
יִמְצָ֑אhe will find
yimtza'H4672 →455 times
וְ֝חֶרְפָּת֗וֹand reproach his
vecherpatoH2781 →
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תִמָּחֶֽה׃it will be wiped away
timachehH4229 →36 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Kings 15:5For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of…
it leads to
- 1 Kings 14:8
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart,…
- 2 Samuel 11:15–17
In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
- 1 Kings 15:3
And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather…
- Psalms 51:1
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
- 2 Chronicles 34:2
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
- 1 Kings 14:8
Through
Matthew 1:6and Jesse the father of David the king. Next: David was the father of Solomon by Uriah’s wife,
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 17:12
Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons in the days of Saul. And Jesse was old and well along in years.
- 1 Kings 15:5
For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of…
- 2 Samuel 23:1
These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist…
- 1 Samuel 17:12
Where this verse is studied
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.