Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 6:35
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Verse 35. He will not regard any ransom] This is an injury that admits of no compensation. No gifts can satisfy a man for the injury his honour has sustained; and to take a bribe or a ransom, would be setting up chastity at a price.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He will accept of no other recompence for the injury beneath thy life.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
He will not regard any ransom,…. So that his case is much worse than, a thief’s; if he is taken, he makes restitution according to law, and he is freed, and no more is said and done to him; and, at most, it is but parting with all the goods in his house; but in this case it will not do. In the Hebrew text it is, “he will not accept the face of any ransom” z; that is, as the Targum paraphrases it,
“he will not accept the face of anyone that gives a gift:”
he will have no respect unto him for the sake of the gift; whatever gift is offered, be it what it will, for the ransom of his life from death, it will be disregarded;
neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts; increase them, and keep continually giving; nothing but the life of the adulterer will satisfy him, which he will either take away himself, or obtain it in a way of legal prosecution. How foolish therefore is the man that will expose his name and credit, his health and substance, his life in this world, and his soul in another, to utter ruin, for the sake of gratifying a sordid lust! This may be interpreted of God, who is a jealous God in matters of worship, and will not suffer idolatry to go unpunished, which is spiritual adultery.
z “non accipiet facies”, Montanus; “non acceptabit faciem ullius redemptionis”, Mercerus, Gejerus; “ullius lytri”, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
35. Will not regard any ransom Literally, He will not lift up his countenance upon it; will not look at it. He will take no bribe, however large. So implacable his wrath that nothing but the utter ruin or death of the adulterer will satisfy him. For this crime society, rightly or wrongly, even in our day, generally justifies a man in taking summary vengeance with his own hand.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
REFLECTIONS.
PRECIOUS Lord Jesus! I feel constrained while reading what is here said of a surety, and the sad state in which such an one involves himself, to call to mind what thy love must have been, which prompted thine infinite breast to enter into suretyship engagements for thy people, and what a state of unequalled sorrows the gracious act induced. In the contemplation of it, I cannot but pass over every other subject which this chapter might otherwise awaken to profit, to consider the greatness of thy love, and the greatness of the calamities which it brought to thy holy soul. Never surely was there an act so truly blessed, gracious, and beneficent as this. In this one act thou didst put thyself in the law-place, and room of all thy chosen. And by that act thou didst undertake both for our debt and for our duty; both to cancel sin and to fulfil all righteousness. And now, Lord, in such views of thee and thine unparalleled mercy, where shall I look but to thee? To whom shall I come but to Jesus? Hast thou struck out my name from the dreadful bond debt where it stood, and where it must forever have stood but for thee, hast thou paid it all, cancelled it all; and when I lay forever insolvent, hast thou redeemed me from all? And shall I, can I reject thine infinite love, and go about to establish mine own righteousness, and forget the wormwood and the gall, the prison and the pit from which thou hast freed me? Oh! infinite love, passing all knowledge. Let me, blessed Redeemer, since thou hast brought me off, and brought me out, let me live to thy glory and to thy praise; and among all thy ransomed, bless forever the almighty surety whose hand was striken for such a stranger, and whose soul travail became so exquisite to redeem me from death. May the life thus saved by grace be spent to thy service, and since by purchase and redemption I am thine, may my soul bless thee, love thee, and delight in thee forever.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
regard: Heb. accept the face of, Pro 4:3, Pro 7:13, Pro 8:25, 2Ki 5:1, *marg. Isa 2:9, Mal 2:9, *marg.
Reciprocal: Gen 32:20 – of me Gen 34:25 – Simeon Gen 39:19 – his wrath Exo 20:5 – for I Lev 15:20 – General 1Ki 20:39 – or else Pro 5:10 – strangers Pro 13:8 – ransom Son 8:7 – if a man Isa 13:17 – shall not regard