3 So do this, my son, to free yourself,
since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
Go-to the point of exhaustion—
and give your neighbor no rest!
4 Allow no sleep to your eyes,
no slumber to your eyelids.
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Proverbs Club Commentary
Work overtime to free yourself from any security pledge.
1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
2 you have been trapped by what you said,
ensnared by the words of your mouth.
Proverbs Club Commentary
Providing collateral or pledging a vow for others
shackles you with your own words.
34 For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury,
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
35 He will not accept any compensation;
he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.
NIV
Proverbs Club Commentary
The adulterer must suffer the relentless vengeance
of the adulteress’ husband.
32 But a man who commits adultery has no sense;
whoever does so destroys himself.
33 Blows and disgrace are his lot,
and his shame will never be wiped away.
NIV
PCDC Commentary
An adulterous man is stupid
and will be humiliated for life.
30 People do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,
though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
NIV
PCDC Commentary
Sympathy for a starving thief is understandable,
but he must face sentencing all the same.
