Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 6:34
For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
34. therefore ] Rather, and. Here is no question of compensation ( Pro 6:35); the burning fire of jealousy will pursue thee unto death (Lev 20:10).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 34. Jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare] He will not, when he has detected the adulterer in the fact, wait for the slow progress of the law: it is then to him the day of vengeance; and in general, he avenges himself on the spot, as we see above.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Is the rage of a man; it inflames a man with rage and fury against the adulterer.
In the day of vengeance; when he hath an opportunity to avenge himself upon the delinquent.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
34, 35. nor any terms ofreconciliation be admitted.
regardor, “accept”any ransom.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
For jealousy [is] the rage of a man,…. Fills a man with rage against him of whom he is jealous; which keeps boiling within him, till he has an opportunity of venting it: and very severe it is; it is strong as death, and cruel as the grave;
therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance; when he has an opportunity of avenging himself; whenever he finds the adulterer in his house, or catches him and his wife in bed together, he spares not to take away his life, and sometimes the life of both of them; instances of this nature history furnishes us with: or he will spare no cost and pains to prosecute him before a civil magistrate, and bring him to public justice; prayers and entreaties, bribes and gifts, wilt be of no avail, as follows.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
One who has been stolen from is to be appeased, but not the injured husband.
34 For jealousy is the fury of a husband,
And he spareth not in the day of vengeance.
35 He regardeth not any ransom,
And is not contented though thou offerest to him gifts ever so great.
The connection marks as the subject; for it respects carnal intercourse with another’s wife. Jealousy is not usually , the glow of anger (from , as from ), but (constr. as ), the glow of a man’s anger, who with the putting forth of all his manly strength will seek satisfaction to his wounded honour. , here significant for , with the fundamental idea of strength, firmness; cf. Arab. jabr , to make fast, to put right again something broken in pieces, particularly a broken vessel, hence Algebra, properly the operation by which an incomplete magnitude is completed (Fl.). The following (with the orthophonic Dagesh, as Pro 6:25 , and with Makkeph) is connected with , with definite reference to the man whom the faithless guest has made a cuckold. When the day comes in which the adultery brought to light demands and admits of vengeance, then, wounded in his right and in his honour, he knows no mercy; he pays no regard to any atonement or recompense by which the adulterer seeks to appease him and induce him not to inflict the punishment that is due: he does not consent, even though thou makest ever so great the gift whereby thou thinkest to gain him. The phrase , , signifies elsewhere to receive the countenance, i.e., the appearance and the impression of a man, i.e., to let it impress one favourably; here it is used of the , i.e., the means by which covering, i.e., non-punishment, pardon of the crime, impunity of the guilty, is obtained. Regarding , to consent to, vid., at Pro 1:10. , Aram. , is a gift, particularly bribery. That the language may again finally assume the form of an address, it beautifully rounds itself off.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(34) For jealousy is the rage of a man.That is jealousy is furious, and cannot be appeased by bribes.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
34. Jealousy rage of a man Or husband. He will have no pity or mercy. This and what follows are assigned as justifying the assertion in Pro 6:31.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Pro 6:34-35. For jealousy is the rage of a man The wise man carries on the contrast between the punishment of theft and adultery. “The theft (says he) may be ransomed by making restitution; but he that violates the marriage-bed raises such an inexorable spirit of revenge in the bosom of the injured, as nothing but the utmost rigour of the law, the death of the offender, will satisfy.” Schultens observes, that no version can express the force of the Hebrew; The inflammation of jealousy is the setting a man on fire: as much as to say, that the jealousy with which a man is inflamed, renders him wholly on fire, and so heated with that fire as never to be appeased, but borne with inexpiable violence to the revenge of his defiled bed. Houbigant renders it, For the fury of the husband shall grow hot. The principal points of instruction to be learned from this chapter are these: care of our family, caution in engaging for others; diligence in some honest employment, hatred of idleness, as contrary to nature; not to contemn the meanest instructor, but to learn something even of the smallest creature: to give good heed to the admonition of our parents and instructors, when they teach the will of God; and above all things to fortify ourselves against sins of uncleanness.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Pro 6:34 For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Ver. 34. For jealousy is the rage. ] Howbeit he may not kill the adulterer, though taken in the act, but prosecute the law against him, and appeal to the magistrate, who is the lord keeper of both tables – custos utriusque tabulae. But if no law will relieve a man, yet let him know that he shall do himself no disservice by making God his chancellor.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
a man = a strong man. Hebrew. geber. App-14. Here, it is used of the jealous husband.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Pro 27:4, Num 5:14, Num 25:11, Jdg 19:29, Jdg 19:30, Son 8:6, 1Co 10:22
Reciprocal: Gen 34:25 – Simeon Gen 34:31 – General Gen 39:19 – his wrath Exo 20:5 – for I Deu 29:20 – will not spare 2Sa 11:5 – I am with child Isa 13:17 – shall not regard Eze 23:25 – I will set
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
6:34 For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not {r} spare in the day of vengeance.
(r) He shows that man by nature seeks the death of he that has abused his wife, and so concludes that neither God’s law nor the law of nature admits any ransom for the adultery.