Proverbs 6:31

6:31 Yet ¹  if he is caught ²  he must repay ³  seven times over,

he might even have to give ⁴  all the wealth of his house.

Proverbs 6:35

6:35 He will not consider ⁵  any compensation; ⁶ 

he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation. ⁷ 

Romans 13:8-10

Exhortation to Love Neighbors

13:8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 13:9 For the commandments, ⁸  “Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not covet,” ⁹  (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁰  13:10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

[6:31]  ¹ tn The term “yet” is supplied in the translation.

[6:31]  ² tn Heb “is found out.” The perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive is equivalent to the imperfect nuances. Here it introduces either a conditional or a temporal clause before the imperfect.

[6:31]  ³ tn The imperfect tense has an obligatory nuance. The verb in the Piel means “to repay; to make restitution; to recompense”; cf. NCV, TEV, CEV “must pay back.”

[6:31]  ⁴ tn 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 substance of his whole house. The verb functions as an imperfect of possibility: “he might even give.”

[6:35]  ⁵ tn Heb “lift up the face of,” meaning “regard.”

[6:35]  ⁶ tn The word rendered “compensation” is כֹּפֶר (cofer); it is essentially a ransom price, a sum to be paid to deliver another from debt, bondage, or crime. The husband cannot accept payment as a ransom for a life, since what has happened cannot be undone so easily.

[6:35]  ⁷ tn BDB 1005 s.v. שֹׁחַד suggests that this term means “hush money” or “bribe” (cf. NIV, NRSV, NLT). C. H. Toy takes it as legal compensation (Proverbs [ICC], 142).

[13:9]  ⁸ tn Grk “For the…” (with the word “commandments” supplied for clarity). The Greek article (“the”) is used here as a substantiver to introduce the commands that are quoted from the second half of the Decalogue (ExSyn 238).

[13:9]  ⁹ sn A quotation from Exod 20:13-15, 17; Deut 5:17-19, 21.

[13:9]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Lev 19:18.