Proverbios 6:27

27 ¿Tomará el hombre fuego en su seno, Sin que sus vestidos se quemen?

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 hermosura en tu corazón, Ni ella te prenda con sus ojos:

26 Porque á causa de la mujer ramera es reducido el hombre á un bocado de pan; Y la mujer caza la preciosa alma del varón.

27 ¿Tomará el hombre fuego en su seno, Sin que sus vestidos se quemen?

28 ¿Andará el hombre sobre las brasas, Sin que sus pies se abrasen?

29 Así el que entrare á la mujer de su prójimo; No será sin culpa cualquiera que la tocare.