Proverbios 6:32

32 Pero el hombre que comete adulterio es un necio total,
porque se destruye a sí mismo.

Proverbios 6:32 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 6:32

[But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman
Which is a greater degree of theft than the former, it being the stealing of another man's wife; lacketh understanding;
or "an heart" ^F20; the thief lacks bread, and therefore steals, but this man lacks wisdom, and therefore acts so foolish a part; the one does it to satisfy hunger, the other a brutish lust; he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul;
is liable to have his life taken away by the husband of the adulteress; so according to Solon's law ^F21 the adulterer taken in the act might be killed by the husband: or by the civil magistrate; for according to the law of. Moses he was to die, either to be strangled or stoned, (See Gill on John 8:5); and besides, he not only ruins the natural faculties of his soul, besotting, corrupting, and depraving that, giving his heart to a whore, but brings eternal destruction on it; yet so foolish is he, though it issues in the ruin of his precious soul; "he does this" ^F23, for so the first part of this clause, which stands last in the original text, may be rendered.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (bl rox) "deficit corde", Pagninus, Montanus; "caret corde", Mercerus, Gejerus; so Michaelis.
F21 Plutarch. in Vita Solon. p. 90.
F23 (hnvey awh) "ipse faeiet illud", Montanus; "ipse faciet hoc", so some in Vatablus; "is id faciet, sive facit", Cocceius; "ille facit id", Michaelis; "is patrabit illud", Schultens.

Proverbios 6:32 In-Context

30 Tal vez haya excusas para un ladrón
que roba porque se muere de hambre.

31 Pero si lo atrapan, deberá pagar siete veces la cantidad que robó,
aunque tenga que vender todo lo que hay en su casa.

32 Pero el hombre que comete adulterio es un necio total,
porque se destruye a sí mismo.

33 Será herido y deshonrado.
Su vergüenza no se borrará jamás.

34 Pues el marido celoso de la mujer se enfurecerá,
y no tendrá misericordia cuando se cobre venganza.