Proverbios 6:27

27 ¿Acaso puede un hombre echarse fuego sobre las piernas
sin quemarse la ropa?

Proverbios 6:27 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man take fire in his bosom
A whore is compared to fire, and is so called by the poets ^F15; and it is a saying of Pythagoras,

``it is a like thing to fall into fire and into a woman ^F16;''

the Hebrew words (va) , "esh", "fire", and (hvya) , "ishah", "a woman", have some affinity in sound; and the phrase of taking it "into the bosom" fitly expresses the impure embraces of a harlot; and his clothes not be burned?
he cannot, it is impossible; and equally vain is it to think that a man can commit whoredom and it not be known, or he not hurt by it in his name and substance, or in his body, soul, and life.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Plauti Bacehides, Act. 4. Sc. 9. v. 15. "Accede ad ignem hunc", Terent. Eunuehus, Act. 1. Sc. 2. v. 5.
F16 (to eiv pur kai eiv gunaika) , apud Maximum, Eclog. c. 39.

Proverbios 6:27 In-Context

25 No codicies su belleza;
no dejes que sus miradas coquetas te seduzcan.

26 Pues una prostituta te llevará a la pobreza,
pero dormir con la mujer de otro hombre te costará la vida.

27 ¿Acaso puede un hombre echarse fuego sobre las piernas
sin quemarse la ropa?

28 ¿Podrá caminar sobre carbones encendidos
sin ampollarse los pies?

29 Así le sucederá al hombre que duerme con la esposa de otro hombre.
El que la abrace no quedará sin castigo.