Proverbs 6:29 - Exposition

So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. It is as great a folly to suppose that an adulterer will escape punishment as to imagine that no injury will follow where fire has been applied. Delitzsch illustrates this verse by a passage from Pythagoras's maxim, τὸ εἰς πῦρ καὶ εἰς γυναῖκα ἐμπεσεῖν ἴσον ὑπάρχει Goeth in ; Hebrew, habba el ; i.e. has intercourse with, as in Genesis 6:4 ; Genesis 19:31 ; Genesis 38:9 ; Psalms 51:2 . The same in force as "toucheth." Shall not be innocent ; Hebrew, lo-yinnakeh ; i.e. poena vacuus, "exempt from punishment," or shall be unpunished (Delitzsch, Zockler, Gesenius); cf. Proverbs 11:21 , "The wicked shall not be unpunished ( lo yinnakeh )" ashore. The verb nakah signifies rimarily "to be pure;" Bothe Vulgate tenders non erit mundus ," he will not be pure;" but the LXX . observes the secondary meaning of the verb, οὐκ ἀθωωθήσεται , non erit innoxius , "he shall not be let go unpunished," the Alexandrine verb ἀθωόω . Certain and the very heaviest punishment shall come upon him (see also Proverbs 17:5 ; Jeremiah 25:29 ; Jeremiah 49:12 ). With this explanation agree Gejerus and Vatablus.