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Text -- Proverbs 6:11-35 (NET)

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6:11 and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man. 6:12 A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things; 6:13 he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers; 6:14 he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times. 6:15 Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy. 6:16 There are six things that the Lord hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him: 6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 6:18 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil, 6:19 a false witness who pours out lies, and a person who spreads discord among family members. 6:20 My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother. 6:21 Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck. 6:22 When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you. 6:23 For the commandments are like a lamp, instruction is like a light, and rebukes of discipline are like the road leading to life, 6:24 by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman. 6:25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes; 6:26 for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life. 6:27 Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes? 6:28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet? 6:29 So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment. 6:30 People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry. 6:31 Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house. 6:32 A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life. 6:33 He will be beaten and despised, and his reproach will not be wiped away; 6:34 for jealousy kindles a husband’s rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge. 6:35 He will not consider any compensation; he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation.
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NET Notes: Pro 6:11 The Hebrew word for “armed” is probably connected to the word for “shield” and “deliver” (s.v. גּ’...

NET Notes: Pro 6:12 Heb “walks around with a perverse mouth.” The term “mouth” is a metonymy of cause, an organ of speech put for what is said. Th...

NET Notes: Pro 6:13 The sinister sign language and gestures of the perverse individual seem to indicate any kind of look or gesture that is put on and therefore a form of...

NET Notes: Pro 6:14 The word “contention” is from the root דִּין (din); the noun means “strife, contention, quarrel.”...

NET Notes: Pro 6:15 This word is a substantive that is used here as an adverbial accusative – with suddenness, at an instant.

NET Notes: Pro 6:16 Heb “his soul.”

NET Notes: Pro 6:17 The hands are the instruments of murder (metonymy of cause), and God hates bloodshed. Gen 9:6 prohibited shedding blood because people are the image o...

NET Notes: Pro 6:18 The word “feet” is here a synecdoche, a part for the whole. Being the instruments of movement, they represent the swift and eager actions ...

NET Notes: Pro 6:19 These seven things the Lord hates. To discover what the Lord desires, one need only list the opposites: humility, truthful speech, preservation of lif...

NET Notes: Pro 6:21 The figures used here are hypocatastases (implied comparisons). There may also be an allusion to Deut 6 where the people were told to bind the law on ...

NET Notes: Pro 6:22 The Hebrew verb means “talk” in the sense of “to muse; to complain; to meditate”; cf. TEV, NLT “advise you.” Instr...

NET Notes: Pro 6:23 Heb “the way of life” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV, NLT “the way to life.” The noun “life” is a genitive following th...

NET Notes: Pro 6:24 The description of the woman as a “strange woman” and now a “loose [Heb “foreign”] woman” is within the context of...

NET Notes: Pro 6:25 Heb “her eyelids” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “eyelashes”; TEV “flirting eyes”). This term is a synecdoche of part (eyeli...

NET Notes: Pro 6:26 These two lines might be an example of synthetic parallelism, that is, “A, what’s more B.” The A-line describes the detrimental mora...

NET Notes: Pro 6:27 The second colon begins with the vav (ו) disjunctive on the noun, indicating a disjunctive clause; here it is a circumstantial clause.

NET Notes: Pro 6:28 The particle indicates that this is another rhetorical question like that in v. 27.

NET Notes: Pro 6:29 The verb is יִנָּקֶה (yinnaqeh), the Niphal imperfect from נָקָה (naqah,...

NET Notes: Pro 6:30 Heb “himself” or “his life.” Since the word נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, traditionally “soul̶...

NET Notes: Pro 6:31 This final clause in the section is somewhat cryptic. The guilty thief must pay back sevenfold what he stole, even if it means he must use the substan...

NET Notes: Pro 6:32 Heb “soul.” The noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “soul”) functions as a metonymy of association for &#...

NET Notes: Pro 6:33 Even though the text has said that the man caught in adultery ruins his life, it does not mean that he was put to death, although that could have happ...

NET Notes: Pro 6:34 The verb חָמַל (khamal) means “to show mercy; to show compassion; to show pity,” usually with the outcome of...

NET Notes: Pro 6:35 BDB 1005 s.v. שֹׁחַד suggests that this term means “hush money” or “bribe” (cf. NIV, NRSV,...

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